bs01bs

Hi All, I've been having some issues with my system seemingly randomly crashing/re-starting. Intitally I thought my CPU might be overheating, but both the BIOS and Speedfan seem to show it's not. SpeedFan however, does show an anonymous 'temp 3' hitting 70 deg C. Does the GPU have a temp sensor on it, and would my BIOS recognise it as overheating and shut the system down? Cheers. My system: Asrock p4i65g, intel celeron D 2.93GHz, 1Mb DDR Ram, XP SP2. My card: ATI sapphire radeon 9550se, 128Mb DDR Sdram, AGP 8x, heatsink (no fan) driectx 9.

Yeah - last night i took the graphics card out and the temp reading was still there. I tried suspending a fan above the northbridge to see if the temp dropped but it had no effect.... Dazed and confused...

Hi, thanks for the reply. I use a standard P4 heatsink and fan for the CPU with an additional case fan. The northbridge has a smaller heatsink without a fan - you can see the mb layout here. Would the bios shut down if the northbridge was overheating?