Overheating North Bridge Causing PC to Freeze (Help!)

[DatMemeLord]

Hello Everyone

 

I was recently gifted an old ASUS PC, the computer works great and the case has amazing ventilation but i am still having a heating problem.

When I boot the PC I normally have about 6-10 min before the computer freezes and is unusable. When this happens I noticed that my north bridge heat sink (Copper one in photo) was blistering hot  yet the cpu was cool as a cucumber. Through trial and error I gave deemed that this is the only thing that could be making the PC freeze. I have contacted ASUS for help and they just told me to update my bios but I already had the latest BIOS so I couldn't update it. I have attempted to reset the Bios to default settings and have tried updating windows but it still has done no good. I don't know what to do and i don't really want to get a new motherboard unless I HAVE to. If you have any ideas or anything that might help it would be greatly appreciated

 

Specs:

Motherboard: ASUS P5N-D

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad

GPU: Radeon HD 6850 

RAM: 4gb DDR2

OS: windows 10 32bit (I know I can run 64bit but i cant update it as it will freeze when downloading)

If you need any other info on my PC specs and such feel free to ask.

(Sorry for the horrible cable management)

Thank you

[Levent]

Try jerry rigging one of those case fans to blow in to north bridge and see if its actually overheating. I dont think your issue is NB.

[Jurrunio]

a dedicated fan for the chipset then

[RollinLower]

8 minutes ago, Levent said:

Try jerry rigging one of those case fans to blow in to north bridge and see if its actually overheating. I dont think your issue is NB.

i agree with this one. if the problem keeps coming back eventough you have a fan on that NB then the problem is probably not the NB.

[Windows7ge]

You can pop the heatsink off the NB and replace the pad/thermal paste but before you go doing that as others have said put a fan on it. See if that helps any notable bit. If not then the problem is likely elsewhere.

[Fasauceome]

25 minutes ago, DatMemeLord said:

I noticed that my north bridge heat sink (Copper one in photo) was blistering hot 

was it hot to the touch or did you actually measure the temps?

[DatMemeLord]

Alright everyone I have got an update. I took all of your guys advice (thank you btw)  and put a fan pointing directly on my NB heat sink and the computer still froze. I have already replaced the ram and the GPU but neither have helped. if you guys might have some ideas on how to fix the freezing that I am open to suggestions. Thanks

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Disconnect the drive(s) that are currently in there, grab a spare drive and try to do a fresh Win10 install on that. 

 

If it runs properly that way, it was a HDD or software problem. 

If it hangs during the install, at least we can cross the OS and storage off the list of suspects.