I built my desktop computer about 3 years ago and it has worked fine until very recently. I would get an error message that said my cpu fan failed. On top of that I got frequent bsod crashes, mostly from ntoskrnl.exe. First, I checked the bios and found out that the fan wouldn't spin for until a minute after boot up. Even then the fan was slow to start and would spin at about 1100rpm if I remember correctly. Also temps were a little high at about 50c idle
So I cleaned all the dust out of my case and replaced the cpu fan. To be extra thorough I took out the cpu cooler, cleaned off the thermal paste, and reapplied new thermal paste. That fixed the cpu fan error but the cpu temps are still a little high at 44-46c in the bios and the new fan is spinning at about 1300 rpm. Admittedly, I may have applied a little too much paste.
I suspected after some google research that the bsod crashes were due to bad ram. So I bought new ram. Same number of gigabytes but higher 1866 mhz. So far after about 10 hrs no bsod crashes.
The problem now is windows becomes slower and slower until about 45 minutes at which point it becomes barely functional. Also, any games I try to play crash within a minute. I did update the bios to the latest driver. That seemed to help a little. What's weird is that windows safe mode seems okay.
My specs:
Asus M5A97 LE 2.0
AMD FX 8350 8 core processor
Cooler master hyper 212 plus
Patriot 8gb (2x8) ddr3 1866 mhz viper 3 dual memory
MSI Radeon R9 280x
Corsair CX750 atx power supply
The old ram was pny optima 8gb (2x4)
Any assistance someone could give me on this would be greatly appreciated.
I almost forgot. I did run the windows diagnostic tool on the new ram and it passed.
So I cleaned all the dust out of my case and replaced the cpu fan. To be extra thorough I took out the cpu cooler, cleaned off the thermal paste, and reapplied new thermal paste. That fixed the cpu fan error but the cpu temps are still a little high at 44-46c in the bios and the new fan is spinning at about 1300 rpm. Admittedly, I may have applied a little too much paste.
I suspected after some google research that the bsod crashes were due to bad ram. So I bought new ram. Same number of gigabytes but higher 1866 mhz. So far after about 10 hrs no bsod crashes.
The problem now is windows becomes slower and slower until about 45 minutes at which point it becomes barely functional. Also, any games I try to play crash within a minute. I did update the bios to the latest driver. That seemed to help a little. What's weird is that windows safe mode seems okay.
My specs:
Asus M5A97 LE 2.0
AMD FX 8350 8 core processor
Cooler master hyper 212 plus
Patriot 8gb (2x8) ddr3 1866 mhz viper 3 dual memory
MSI Radeon R9 280x
Corsair CX750 atx power supply
The old ram was pny optima 8gb (2x4)
Any assistance someone could give me on this would be greatly appreciated.
I almost forgot. I did run the windows diagnostic tool on the new ram and it passed.
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