CPU Overheat

[Speedbird]

Hello.

 

I replaced the motherboard and CPU of an old PC which would automatically shut down due to overheating. Now I want to find out what component is faulty: the motherboard, the CPU or the cooler.The motherboard is an ASRock P4i65G and the CPU is a Socket 478 Pentium 4 @ 2.8 GHz, 1M cache and hyperthreading.

 

What should I look for?

[Guest]

Are all the power cables correctly plugged in?

[Speedbird]

Are all the power cables correctly plugged in?

They were. The board is currently outside the PC, in an anti-static bag.

 

Those CPUs heat up a lot... In fact I'd 3 socket 478 CPUs, 2 burnt and left a shitty one (1.8 GHz, northwood) (immediatly sold it... my XP 2600+ is far away better)

What thermal paste does it have? how does the cooler looks like?

I replaced the old one with Prolima PK-2. It was pretty cheap. The cooler has a missing pin which would connect the lever to the metal parts which attach to the cooler backplate.

[Speedbird]

That thermal paste is good so that isn't the problem... Stock heatsink for that CPU is "meh" but If it lost one pin then you're screwed... I hope you don't mean retention module Pin... but does look like. You'll have to manage to find a new one (I don't mean heatsink, I mean that plastic thing with the pins)

Give pics of the problem, I'm mind-fucking myself

It's not the stock cooler. But it is one of the pins of the retention module. There's no point in getting a new cooler, as I have already replaced everything on the PC that it came from. So are the motherboard and CPU good?

[K_c1n]

Thats quite important if u dont have even pressure across ure cpu its gonna fry