Well it's time to say goodbye shes dying..
 

My first ever Athlon XP pc served me for 3years. xp2000+

The CPU temp is running at 80-82'c 177-179'sF 181'F

The pc keeps locking up I swaped the PC fans from the thermalTake to the OEM model didn't help. Time to backup files =)

good luck in the move, i found a program that copies all your software and settings from the old computer to the new one, very helpful when I bought the new laptop

Maybe it had a trojan installed on it and some fuckhead has a mirror of your whole harddrive somewhere.

what's the name of that software?

backup is smart... my computer is dying too! It's really old!

Hit me up on icq

Can you post a link here?

My xp2000+ shit out on me recently too. Had a good three year run as well.

Can you just post the name here instead?

ya man, post that shit... .i just ordered a new tower and need this.

thanks.

same exact thing with my xp 2000+ weird...three years and done

Use at least a few parts if you build a new machine. It is good luck to keep her around ;)

same thing happened to me last year!got a new one....

Must be some super secret program the owner doesn't want to sell and make money from. :1orglaugh

I am running on a desktop that I bought about 4 years ago. Had to replace the fan, the powersupply, and the box. It is old, and somewhat slow, but it gets the job done.

Rip Yo
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Awesome, what program? how much is it? I have two computers, one new and I just want to copy all the stuff over and don't know how.

its baout time she has her much deserved rest.

Take her in the backyard and shoot the bitch Old Yeller style.

i love your sig

Sounds like a hopeless case. RIP to your Athlon XP.

have you re-applied any heat sink compound ? the stuff that was on there has probably dried up , if you have that sticker stuff that hsf's come with , rip it off , use some alcohol to get rid of the crap that gets left behind and apply some heat sink compound like artic silver

a pc doesn't slowly die , it either dies or keeps going , the only thing on a computer that will slowly die is a hard drive due to the moving parts , cpu,ram,motherboard are all electrical so as i said if it was going to die you'd wake up one morning it wont switch on , there will be signs of it being on its death bed

you'll know if its the hard drive karking it as it would be making clunking noises

I just installed the third power supply on my old Athlon 900 box that I built 4+ years ago. After numerous upgrades/ component changes, that old Thunderbird is still chugging along.

The box runs my bedroom TV/surround sound.. runs 24 hrs a day.

:winkwink: I've got a few thousand myspace profiles for sale if interested.

Yeah thats why I took off my thermaltake CPU fan and swaped it with the OEM brandnew I am gonna pickup some grease.. I had it over clocked a little bit hardly anything at all (all bios) Now I set everything way back and I am still getting 67's C -73'C

would be a nice backup pc for storage, windows media center or anything else like that :)

i found one too, built into xp..
start, programs, accessories, system tools, file and settings transfer wizard


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...bott_fstw.mspx

Have you tried looking at the power supply?

is there still hope for a dying athlon pc?

How's your cpu resrources? Is somehting running it into high usage? Constant usage can cause insane temps on that chip.

Disk back up software for windows sucks, there is nothing really solid from what I hear.

:disgust

Just back up psd, favorites, desktop, DW, password protector, and re-install the rest.

sad... but soooooo true.

The PC temp was when I was in the bios. POST

there's your problem , the heat sink and chip aren't making a good enough contact for heat exchange

if you were desperate enough you could even use toothpaste to fill the gaps between the heatsink and chip ( just means that you would have to reapply quite frequently )