- Sep 25, 2016
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Hi there,
Yesterday I bought a cheap water cooler to replace my existing stock Intel LGA 1366 socket cooler ( https://dgxtech.com/sales/uphere-technology-all-in-one-high-performance-liquid-cpu-cooler-with-adjustable-120mm-pwm-fan/ )
I managed to set up everything, turned on the PC, and went straight to bios to check temperature. At first, it was fine, it was stable at around 34C so I just left it for a while just so the system could get used to it. I came back in around 30 minutes and there were no changes so I decided to tune it up for a bit and selected one of the default OC settings on my motherboard to change the clock speed from 3.07ghz to 3.7. Again, I left it open for a bit just to notice any changes. After around 5 mins, it went up to around 43C and so I just saved changes and turned on my PC.
Just a few applications managed to load when suddenly the PC decided to shut down and afterwards it turned just turned on. The bleeping sounds just went mental, I must have heard like 7 beeps and there was an error message "CPU fan error" or "CPU fan override" or something similar. Either way, I managed to get into bios and the temperature, shockingly, was around 90C. And then it just switched off again.
So my idea was that overclocking was the issue. I waited for a few minutes for CPU to cool down, and pressed the "reset" button on my MOBO to change any settings to factory default. Anyway, after around an hour, I tried to turn it on again. I went on to BIOS. The temperature started at 25C and in half an hour stabilised at around 34C. Again, I booted Windows, everything seemed fine. Did s little browsing on the internet but nothing major. There was some sort of security update that had to be done so I turned off my PC and wanted to turn it on again afterwards to defragment my hard drives.
For the second time, once I started the system, there were loads of beeps coming my way indicating the very same thing. I went on to BIOS again and the temperature seemed to be around 84-90C and without any hesitation I just turned it off.
So I disconnected everything and after a few minutes decided to look into the case, hopefully to find an issue. I have two 120mm fans, one of them is connected at bottom front as an intake and the other in the middle back with radiator as an exhaust. No issues there, fans were working although they do seemed to be working quite hard due to the noise. I checked if there were any issues with thermal paste but no luck- the paste I applied was pea-sized and evenly spread through the CPU. I changed the three pin slot for the thing that went on top of CPU. Removed and inserted the CMOS. Did a reset on CMOS. Did s reset on MOBO. No luck.
Any ideas?
I7-950 3.07ghz
ASUS Rampage iii GENE
6x4GB 2033mhz ram
550W power supply
Nvidia Quadro FX 580 graphics card
2x600GB SATA 6GB/s hard drives
And a cd/DVD slot
Yesterday I bought a cheap water cooler to replace my existing stock Intel LGA 1366 socket cooler ( https://dgxtech.com/sales/uphere-technology-all-in-one-high-performance-liquid-cpu-cooler-with-adjustable-120mm-pwm-fan/ )
I managed to set up everything, turned on the PC, and went straight to bios to check temperature. At first, it was fine, it was stable at around 34C so I just left it for a while just so the system could get used to it. I came back in around 30 minutes and there were no changes so I decided to tune it up for a bit and selected one of the default OC settings on my motherboard to change the clock speed from 3.07ghz to 3.7. Again, I left it open for a bit just to notice any changes. After around 5 mins, it went up to around 43C and so I just saved changes and turned on my PC.
Just a few applications managed to load when suddenly the PC decided to shut down and afterwards it turned just turned on. The bleeping sounds just went mental, I must have heard like 7 beeps and there was an error message "CPU fan error" or "CPU fan override" or something similar. Either way, I managed to get into bios and the temperature, shockingly, was around 90C. And then it just switched off again.
So my idea was that overclocking was the issue. I waited for a few minutes for CPU to cool down, and pressed the "reset" button on my MOBO to change any settings to factory default. Anyway, after around an hour, I tried to turn it on again. I went on to BIOS. The temperature started at 25C and in half an hour stabilised at around 34C. Again, I booted Windows, everything seemed fine. Did s little browsing on the internet but nothing major. There was some sort of security update that had to be done so I turned off my PC and wanted to turn it on again afterwards to defragment my hard drives.
For the second time, once I started the system, there were loads of beeps coming my way indicating the very same thing. I went on to BIOS again and the temperature seemed to be around 84-90C and without any hesitation I just turned it off.
So I disconnected everything and after a few minutes decided to look into the case, hopefully to find an issue. I have two 120mm fans, one of them is connected at bottom front as an intake and the other in the middle back with radiator as an exhaust. No issues there, fans were working although they do seemed to be working quite hard due to the noise. I checked if there were any issues with thermal paste but no luck- the paste I applied was pea-sized and evenly spread through the CPU. I changed the three pin slot for the thing that went on top of CPU. Removed and inserted the CMOS. Did a reset on CMOS. Did s reset on MOBO. No luck.
Any ideas?
I7-950 3.07ghz
ASUS Rampage iii GENE
6x4GB 2033mhz ram
550W power supply
Nvidia Quadro FX 580 graphics card
2x600GB SATA 6GB/s hard drives
And a cd/DVD slot
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