Hi all,
Never really posted here before but know most people are good on here for advice.
I recently went back to playing World of Warcraft on my PC, and decided that I needed to get a new GPU as my old one had a few broken fins on the fan. I replaced it with an R9 270X, it was working great for a couple of weeks and was running a lot quieter than my old card.
However after a few weeks I had been playing on the morning, went out for the afternoon and came back on the evening and attempted to turn my computer on.
Upon turning it on it wouldn't boot and was stuck on the black screen just before the windows logo. I tried to restart it and after a few goes got a message saying a disc read error has occurred.
The same time this was going on the CPU cooler fan sounded like a helicopter and the heatsink was red hot. I had a look at the fan and the CPU cooler pretty much fell off, I looked at the cooling paste and it was rock solid and pretty much peeled off.
I put my old GPU back in and was advised to put some tin foil folded into a square under just to see if it would boot (it didn't). The next day I thought I'd have a quick look and see if it would turn on and it did. Booted up completely fine but still sounded horrific. As such I got some new cooling paste and applied it to my CPU and cooler as advised by the packaging.
For another week or so the computer was completely fine and was running even quieter and cooler than before. I popped my new GPU back in and it was working great. Now a few days ago the same hang up happened and it wouldn't start, with the CPU fan sounding awful once again.
I had been having some problems with windows updates (I'm running windows 10) but I've now fixed them through a refresh and can't see this being the problem?
However it is still running very loud and very hot (hitting up to 50°) even when idle. I have an 8 core AMD processor and the load on the first processor, according to core temp, is getting up to 90% and the other 3 or 4 below that up to 70%, again even when idle. I can't work out what the problem is at all, is there anything I can do?
Any help would be appreciated!
Never really posted here before but know most people are good on here for advice.
I recently went back to playing World of Warcraft on my PC, and decided that I needed to get a new GPU as my old one had a few broken fins on the fan. I replaced it with an R9 270X, it was working great for a couple of weeks and was running a lot quieter than my old card.
However after a few weeks I had been playing on the morning, went out for the afternoon and came back on the evening and attempted to turn my computer on.
Upon turning it on it wouldn't boot and was stuck on the black screen just before the windows logo. I tried to restart it and after a few goes got a message saying a disc read error has occurred.
The same time this was going on the CPU cooler fan sounded like a helicopter and the heatsink was red hot. I had a look at the fan and the CPU cooler pretty much fell off, I looked at the cooling paste and it was rock solid and pretty much peeled off.
I put my old GPU back in and was advised to put some tin foil folded into a square under just to see if it would boot (it didn't). The next day I thought I'd have a quick look and see if it would turn on and it did. Booted up completely fine but still sounded horrific. As such I got some new cooling paste and applied it to my CPU and cooler as advised by the packaging.
For another week or so the computer was completely fine and was running even quieter and cooler than before. I popped my new GPU back in and it was working great. Now a few days ago the same hang up happened and it wouldn't start, with the CPU fan sounding awful once again.
I had been having some problems with windows updates (I'm running windows 10) but I've now fixed them through a refresh and can't see this being the problem?
However it is still running very loud and very hot (hitting up to 50°) even when idle. I have an 8 core AMD processor and the load on the first processor, according to core temp, is getting up to 90% and the other 3 or 4 below that up to 70%, again even when idle. I can't work out what the problem is at all, is there anything I can do?
Any help would be appreciated!
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