what can cause a intrigue to over heat

1. i have an earlier post where a friend of mine had his motherboard voltage reg chips actually fire out (I think there was actually a little burn in that area, which did stink really bad).
   He really tin can't afford some other computer then I told him I'd try and assist, so I purshased a refurbished ASUS P8Q67-G from amazon which has a 90 day warrenty.
   In my other postal service everyone thought that possibly the power supply (Antec 650watt) was bad and information technology probably toasted the CPU. I accept a Dr. Ability II PSU tester from thermaltake and tested the psu and it tested okay. Well after getting refurbished MB installed with everything it did boot upwards. The trouble is that now the cpu is overheating and showing a starting temp of 160 fahrenheit and so it doesn't take long before it hits 174 fahrenheit and so I turned it off. Would a bad PSU crusade this, or is it a faulty motherboard?

2. Oh well, I judge I was thinking maybe likewise much voltage could cause the cpu to overheat. I've heard that overclocking a cpu can arrive run hotter and that you accept to increment voltage sometimes to overclock information technology. So I figured that maybe a bad PSU putting out too much voltage would cause the cpu to run hotter. So you think it'south a bad motherboard then?

3. 

   Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

   If the PSU is delivering to much voltage, the motherboard will somewhen get damaged. That could impairment the CPU. But, more often than not, a bad PSU will fry the motherboard, not the CPU. You said you tested the PSU and it'due south OK. So it's virtually certainly the motherboard. I'm with JoeRay12 on this ane - return the motherboard.

4. His original calculator was a gateway 4860 with in i5 cpu and intel motherboard. The motherboard toasted a voltage regulator chip ( fifty-fifty had a footling burn down on it). In my final postal service about this i was wondering if it was worth getting some other motherboard or could there be more that's wrong with the figurer, such as a fried cpu?
   Well I took a chance and bought a refurbished asus motherboard from amazon to replaced the fried MB while using all the other original parts and the estimator did boot up. Yet; it was overheating right away. I thought maybe a bad psu was the reason the MB got cooked and would that also crusade the cpu to overheat.
   It turned out that the cheap heat sink and fan for the cpu wasn't staying on. So I take a few spare computer components laying around and decided to just apply a amend quality heat sink and fan. That took intendance of the cpu overheating, but I nonetheless didn't trust the psu. So i had him get another one. So everything seems fine, just I had to reload windows seven on his system since information technology didn't come with the disk. I have the same version of windows vii so I loaded that on hoping I could only apply the cd-code from the side of the gateway to actuate windows 7. No such luck and now I go the bulletin," your copy of windows my exist pirated". Is that considering of a different motherboard and or psu?

5. 

   Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

   No. It's considering yous accept installed your Windows 7 on a second computer. Why did you re-install Windows? The problem(s) had nada to practice with the HDD.

6. Okay when he purchased the computer from best purchase it did not come with the windows 7 disk. After replacing his bad intel MB with the asus MB the figurer would not kicking into windows 7, and the repair disk didn't help. I told him he would probably take to buy windows seven.
   The local computer store told him that (not best buy) if he knew someone with the same version of win seven only load it and utilize the cd fundamental on the sticker on the instance. Well, I have the same version of win 7 that is on his calculator, and so that is what I tried. It didn't work (I didn't think it would) but I tried anyway. I try calling microsoft and explain the situation and hopefully they volition activate it for him.
   He's going through a divorce and that is why I'chiliad trying to assistance him out. This is an expense he could practice without if possible.

7. I would welcome whatever corrections to the beneath contribution in case of errors or inaccuracies.

   This is the situation as I understand it with HP computers which are presupplied with an O/Due south:

   The OS that comes with a PC is tied to that automobile. This why the CoA code is stuck to the case of that machine. Microsoft retrieve it helps stop software piracy. HP accept an arrangement with MS. I do not believe it is possible to use the Os from i machine on whatever other auto - thus information technology prevents the same copy of the OS being used simultaneously. With HPs I have read in the user forum that there is a lawmaking stored in a not-rewritable department of the kicking ROM which is matched to that copy of the OS. The ROM is an SM fleck flow soldered onto the mb. Apparently the same re-create of the Bone can be used merely if the motherboard is replaced with an identical function, which carries the right (matching) code. IDK how much of this is correct considering I have never tried it. As well information technology is simply applicable to HP - IDK what other suppliers' arrangements are.

   The other thing one might try if you have a tied OS and a computer which will information technology will not install on is to contact and tell them the old hardware was destroyed, simply you nevertheless have the Os on a hard disk drive and you want to install it on your new hardware.

   When yous have CDs you should exist able to the OS on whatever PC, fifty-fifty 2 at once simply you cannot actuate it twice or e'er connect the 2nd PC to the cyberspace

   PSUs CPUs RAM DIMMs and graphics cards are (given compatibility) interchangeable and do not touch the OS (given compatibility)

   This could all be circumvented, at least for trial purposes, past booting into Linux; several complimentary versions/public licence are available.

   Dumb_Question
   31.March.2015

8. 

   Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

   mcduke, did you install your Windows 7 on your friends PC? If and so, you lot volition not be able to legally activate it. The person at the PC repair shop was correct but, he should take said you demand to do a repair - not an install.
   It is possible to repair Windows on one PC using the retail disc from another PC. But, the two Windows versions must be identical, and the product key from Windows on the PC being repaired must be used if and then prompted.

   I advise your friend buys Windows vii SP1 or Windows 8.one. In about six months he can upgrade to Windows 10 for free. He has a twelvemonth to do then, and he'll receive updates until the stop of back up for Windows ten. In a nutshell, Windows 10 has the best of both Windows 7 and 8.i.

   PS I your friend can't afford to purchase Windows (I understand), propose he uses Linux Mint or Ubuntu. After Windows ten is released, he'll have 1 year to purchase Windows 7 SP1 or 8.1, and upgrade to Windows 10. That'll requite him ± eighteen months.

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