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Old 04-27-2004
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AMD Atholon 1.2 - Overheating - Beeping

Anytime I play Diablo 2 or any FPS after about 5 minutes my computer starts to beeeep loudly and my frames per second drop from 90 to like 5 and the games run slowly, but when I am idle on XP everything is ok with no problems. What can I do to improve my cpu cooling? Better yet is the loud beeping the actual CPU overheating? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Old 04-27-2004
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Difficult to say, as you didn't say which mainboard and which graphics card you have.
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Old 04-27-2004
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asus motherboard and a geforce2mx 32mb video card
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Old 04-28-2004
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bueller?
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Old 04-30-2004
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New fan? coolant cream?
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Old 04-30-2004
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The beeping does sound like CPU overheating - have you checked that the CPU fan works and heatsink is in place and isn't covered with dust ?
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Old 04-30-2004
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Well there is a fan and there was A LOT of dust, think if I buy a new and better heatsink not one from 2 years ago and get some thermo cream everything should be ok?
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Old 04-30-2004
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Well there is a fan and there was A LOT of dust, think if I buy a new and better heatsink not one from 2 years ago and get some thermo cream everything should be ok?
I think if you clean all that dust out, it will be much better.
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Ok i will test and let you all know
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Old 05-06-2004
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hey also look at your cpu voltage.
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