Just a note here for anyone caught in this situation that I was. Starting 3 days ago, my computer just kept shutting down within 2 minutes of startup (even without going into Windows). I opened-up the case and got a big fan to blow into it (assuming it was a heat related shut down). The computer stayed on long enough for me to run Nvidia temperature monitors. Everything was fine except for one reading: My four CPUs went from 50C to 125C+ in a minute then CRASH.
With this in mind, I had to look at the motherboard. Apparently there is this thing called Thermal Paste that goes between your CPU and a fan/heatsink. 2 days ago I had no idea what this meant... but anyway I took off my heat sink and found smeared/bubbled paste scattered. I suspected this must be the problem (heat transfer not going through). So, I followed online tutorials... using alcohol to rub the old paste off, and then bought some new paste to apply. Then I put the heat-sink back onto the CPU and powered the box back up... and...
It works now! Well, I had some errors which involved me having to re-seat the memory sticks... and then by default, CPU cores 3 & 4 were off, so I turned them back on (in BIOS) and it crashed soon after. I quickly re-switched to just cores 1&2 and I've been OK for 5 hours. I may try again later to enable those cores though...
Anyway, thought I'd mention this as I'm not a hardware guy but it's crazy what you can figure out these days...
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@Keyeszx: Go
Bought.
P.S. I feel bad for the guy having to design motherboards... looks insane.
And thanks PatchOne.
Just a note here for anyone caught in this situation that I was. Starting 3 days ago, my computer just kept shutting down within 2 minutes of startup (even without going into Windows). I opened-up the case and got a big fan to blow into it (assuming it was a heat related shut down). The computer stayed on long enough for me to run Nvidia temperature monitors. Everything was fine except for one reading: My four CPUs went from 50C to 125C+ in a minute then CRASH.
With this in mind, I had to look at the motherboard. Apparently there is this thing called Thermal Paste that goes between your CPU and a fan/heatsink. 2 days ago I had no idea what this meant... but anyway I took off my heat sink and found smeared/bubbled paste scattered. I suspected this must be the problem (heat transfer not going through). So, I followed online tutorials... using alcohol to rub the old paste off, and then bought some new paste to apply. Then I put the heat-sink back onto the CPU and powered the box back up... and...
It works now! Well, I had some errors which involved me having to re-seat the memory sticks... and then by default, CPU cores 3 & 4 were off, so I turned them back on (in BIOS) and it crashed soon after. I quickly re-switched to just cores 1&2 and I've been OK for 5 hours. I may try again later to enable those cores though...
Anyway, thought I'd mention this as I'm not a hardware guy but it's crazy what you can figure out these days...