ASUS M5A87 Overheating instantly?

Adam Earlston

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Hi, i have been having problems with my PC lately =/ well, iv always had very strange issues.. ever since it was new (Custom built PC from ebay, poorly made, seller closed account after 1,000+ sales and i was the unlucky person along with like 3 others), Windows Updates always fail, cant seem to fix that, my Ram wasnt compatible also, already upgraded to 1 that is, and now like a year later, i have a new problem:

My PC has started to shutdown recently, just randomly half turns off, my pc is still running, but silently, a red light is turned on next to my ram (dont think thats important) when it turns off, and i lose all display.. So there's no blue screen or anything.

To turn my PC off whilst its crashed like this, i have to hold down the power button until it shuts off, then if i press to turn my PC back on, it will not =/, i have to unplug my power cable, hold down the Power On button for a few seconds to drain all energy, then plug the power cable back in and my pc will turn on, with the Windows Error Recovery screen (Failed to shut down correctly).

Anyway, if i leave my PC turned off until its cold, touch everything, all cold, turn my PC on, 2 mins later, the brass pipe on my Motherboard fan thing is hot to touch, and the Blue ASUS thing that sticks out is very hot to touch, and the entire motherboard feels kinda hot, after like 2 mins of being turned on..

At 1st i thought my Graphics Card was overheating and causing my PC to crash, so i replaced the Thermal Paste stuff, didnt fix it, and now i have realized that my motherboard is strangely overheating super fast =/ cant play games, sometimes it crashes, sometimes it can last like 8 hours without crashing.


Should i buy a new motherboard? (no idea at all how to buy one, due to compatibility)
Is it possible to fix?
Oh also, my motherboard fan is spinning, and i have 3 other working fans, but my motherboard fan is sucking wind is, not blowing outwards, is that normal?(actually, i dont know if it is blowing inwards or outwards, very weak but spinning fast) Has my motherboard ran out of some kind of cooling fluid or something?

(Corrected Title, M5A87)
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Does your system have a water cooler? If not there's no such thing as cooling fluid in a PC. Can you post a pick of the inside of your PC case so I know what I'm looking at since its custom? I don't like seeing max Vcore in your pic at 1.42 thats alot boot into bios and set default values in the last tab to rule out the idiot that built it trying an OC, save and boot. Sounds like your CPU overheating. Are the temps in the pic at idle? Does the CPU heatsink fan spin? Have you tried removing the heat sink(not the CPU chip just the fan), clean cpu with Arctic Silver Arcticlean Thermal material Remover then apply new Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste and reseat the heatsink. Let me know what you came up with.

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Does your system have a water cooler? If not there's no such thing as cooling fluid in a PC. Can you post a pick of the inside of your PC case so I know what I'm looking at since its custom? I don't like seeing max Vcore in your pic at 1.42 thats alot boot into bios and set default values in the last tab to rule out the idiot that built it trying an OC, save and boot. Sounds like your CPU overheating. Are the temps in the pic at idle? Does the CPU heatsink fan spin? Have you tried removing the heat sink(not the CPU chip just the fan), clean cpu with Arctic Silver Arcticlean Thermal material Remover then apply new Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste and reseat the heatsink. Let me know what you came up with.
 
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