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Condor Baggins
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« on: March 06, 2011, 01:34:42 PM » |
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As of yesterday morning my pc has decided to randomly power off when running games. Haven't changed any settings, fiddled with hardware or downloaded anything that could have caused problems.
Any ideas?
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Wooster
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« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2011, 01:36:15 PM » |
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Power supply failing?
Thermal shutdown?
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Condor Baggins
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« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2011, 01:39:07 PM » |
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I'm installing speedfan to look for any anomalies.
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« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2011, 01:42:46 PM » |
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As soon as it happens restart immediately, enter BIOS and see what the CPU temp is.
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Condor Baggins
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« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2011, 01:47:30 PM » |
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 That's how it looks atm. Next time it happens I'll check the BIOS. |
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« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2011, 02:01:45 PM » |
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That's disgusting. The BIOS was reading 72. Cpu Temp after the latest meltdown.  I clocked everything back to default last night and it's still doing it.  |
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« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2011, 02:07:47 PM » |
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Maybe have a look and see if your fans need a wee clean? Or if you have any thermal paste take the heatsink off clean it and reseat it on cpu. Thought I would state the obvious  |
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« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2011, 02:10:53 PM » |
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Fan is spotless, I wouldn't think it'd need a new layer of thermal paste 6 months after it was new....  Idle temp is about 46. It must shoot up past 75 when under load for some reason.  |
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« Last Edit: March 06, 2011, 02:25:53 PM by Condor »
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« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2011, 02:30:15 PM » |
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It took me three goes to get the compound right on this build after I replaced the stock cooler.  |
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« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2011, 02:32:41 PM » |
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I'll give the new paste a go later. Don't see why it should be baking tbh. It's only Alien Swarm I'm playing.
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« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2011, 03:23:15 PM » |
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Do you use any of those mad programmes the motherboard manufacturer supplies ?
You know the mad over clocking from within the OS type one ?
Get shot of it if you are, it could be OC'ing your CPU more than is healthy, even when just playing alien Swarm.
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« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2011, 03:29:32 PM » |
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Don't use anything like that.
Everything in the BIOS is back to default settings so it's locked at 2.8ghz.
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« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2011, 05:23:00 PM » |
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Fuck. The thermal paste I thought I had must have been the one Wooster took away with him.  It's idle at 41 degrees just now. Compared to 46 earlier. Strangeeee. |
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« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2011, 05:38:45 PM » |
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Leave the side of the case off.  I took my TC away with me because there's only one application left in it and it's the only one I have left.  I used to have some Arctic Silver, but I don't know where it went to. |
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« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2011, 05:41:16 PM » |
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The side of the case is never on. I never put it on anymore for the fact I'm too lazy to take it off if something needs done.  *Edit* After just under 10 mins of Blops online the temp was 65. |
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« Last Edit: March 06, 2011, 06:08:51 PM by Condor »
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