My desktop PC is over 3 years old. I have an Intel i5-2500 on an Asus P8Z68-MPro board, using the stock Intel heatsink and fan. I'm not overclocking, but I have 3 hard drives running in there.
Only in the past few weeks, I've been getting random restarts, and on startup the bios sometimes reports a hot CPU, but when I restart again, Windows starts OK.
I just installed SpeedFan, and it's reporting between 80 and 90 degrees when idle in Windows. System temperature is OK at 28 degrees. CPU temp in BIOS shows about 72 C.
There wasn't much dust in the case or on the fan, but I cleared off anything that was there. I also cleaned off and reapplied thermal paste. SpeedFan and BIOS are still showing high temperatures.
I'm not sure if it's a faulty sensor or what. Any ideas what could be causing this?
Thanks!
Neel
Only in the past few weeks, I've been getting random restarts, and on startup the bios sometimes reports a hot CPU, but when I restart again, Windows starts OK.
I just installed SpeedFan, and it's reporting between 80 and 90 degrees when idle in Windows. System temperature is OK at 28 degrees. CPU temp in BIOS shows about 72 C.
There wasn't much dust in the case or on the fan, but I cleared off anything that was there. I also cleaned off and reapplied thermal paste. SpeedFan and BIOS are still showing high temperatures.
I'm not sure if it's a faulty sensor or what. Any ideas what could be causing this?
Thanks!
Neel
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