So, I am having some issues, and was wondering if somebody could offer some insight. I recently obtained a used, but in really great condition A10-5800k a-series APU (Black edition) pc with an asus motherboard. For a while, the system was stable, but after about a day or so, it seems to power off unexpectedly with no errors, just suddenly boom, complete power loss (Not a reboot, and I have to press the power button to turn it back on).
When running cpu-z, at idle the 4 cores run at about 1999mhz, but as soon as I do anything as simple as move my mouse, they all run at 3999mhz. According to cpuz, when this happens, the temp goes from an idle 54-60c up to a blistering 100c. I know this can't be accurate, but it's still troubling. I had thought maybe it was overheating either way, as the first time it did it, the heatsink was hot to the touch, so I cleaned it up, put some thermal compound on it (a higher quality version of arctic silver), and reseated the heatsink. To also check for overheating, I placed a house fan directly over it to help keep it cool. The heatsink no longer gets hots (even with the case closed), however it still shuts off.
My second thought was maybe the PSU was failing (it's a 500watt rosewill psu), but having only one hdd plugged in and just power to the mobo, with heavy load (for the time im able to keep it on), the voltage isn't spiking or dropping below range. (Lowest was about 11.6volts on 12v rail and about 3.1 and 5.2 accordingly), and highest was around 12.8 on 12v, and 3.5 and 5.7 accordingly).
Does anybody else have any insight on what the problem could be? I should also note that for the first day or two, I could leave the PC running and it would work fine, but over the last couple of days, I can't even let it idle or it will shut down after a while. I was in BIOS yesterday resetting it back to default thinking maybe previous owner OCd it incorrectly, and even in bios it turned off on me.
When running cpu-z, at idle the 4 cores run at about 1999mhz, but as soon as I do anything as simple as move my mouse, they all run at 3999mhz. According to cpuz, when this happens, the temp goes from an idle 54-60c up to a blistering 100c. I know this can't be accurate, but it's still troubling. I had thought maybe it was overheating either way, as the first time it did it, the heatsink was hot to the touch, so I cleaned it up, put some thermal compound on it (a higher quality version of arctic silver), and reseated the heatsink. To also check for overheating, I placed a house fan directly over it to help keep it cool. The heatsink no longer gets hots (even with the case closed), however it still shuts off.
My second thought was maybe the PSU was failing (it's a 500watt rosewill psu), but having only one hdd plugged in and just power to the mobo, with heavy load (for the time im able to keep it on), the voltage isn't spiking or dropping below range. (Lowest was about 11.6volts on 12v rail and about 3.1 and 5.2 accordingly), and highest was around 12.8 on 12v, and 3.5 and 5.7 accordingly).
Does anybody else have any insight on what the problem could be? I should also note that for the first day or two, I could leave the PC running and it would work fine, but over the last couple of days, I can't even let it idle or it will shut down after a while. I was in BIOS yesterday resetting it back to default thinking maybe previous owner OCd it incorrectly, and even in bios it turned off on me.
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