Last night I was asleep and I heard my fans and water cooler kick on full speed and start running sounded like a car taking off, I went to my computer and say my cpu was at 97 degress, i hurried and shut it off, well now every time I start it up, it goes right back to the same thing. I am not sure what's causing it and I am afraid to turn it in bc I don't want to fry to cpu. Any suggestions on what that could be. I have an i7 7700k. Mb is z270 m5, and water cooler is a corsair h100i v2.
Cpu suddenly overheating.
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derekanhorn
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Is the radiator clogged with dust? You may need to blow it out with some compressed air.
Also, open Resource Monitor and look at the CPU and see what's happening with usage % and what if any process could be pushing your CPU.
Also, open Resource Monitor and look at the CPU and see what's happening with usage % and what if any process could be pushing your CPU.
Nothing was running, it was at like 0 to 1 percent usage when I looked. That's what was stumping me. I thought maybe something was running but there wasn't anything and the issue just sprung out of no where. I am thinking maybe the cooler is going out, but it is fairly new, only like 4 or 5 months old.
lumineZ
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Put your finger against the cpu water block very lightly and you should feel a slight vibration = pump is running.
If you cant feel anything you can take a philips screwdriver and put the philips head on the cpu water block and then put your ear against the handle of the screwdriver, now you should either hear a low hum or feel a light vibrations. Or both ofc.
Just make sure the handle of the screwdriver is of hard plastic and not rubber.
If you do both things and dont feel or hear anything you can be pretty sure the pump has died.
But if you turn the system off and let everything cool down for lets say an hour or two. Then boot up and dont do anything but monitor your cpu temp. If you go to 90 degree in under a minute there is something wrong with how the water block is mounted or the thermal paste is very bad.
Even if your pump is dead your CPU will still have to heat up the copper block + water around it. Takes longer than 1 minute on water.
If you cant feel anything you can take a philips screwdriver and put the philips head on the cpu water block and then put your ear against the handle of the screwdriver, now you should either hear a low hum or feel a light vibrations. Or both ofc.
Just make sure the handle of the screwdriver is of hard plastic and not rubber.
If you do both things and dont feel or hear anything you can be pretty sure the pump has died.
But if you turn the system off and let everything cool down for lets say an hour or two. Then boot up and dont do anything but monitor your cpu temp. If you go to 90 degree in under a minute there is something wrong with how the water block is mounted or the thermal paste is very bad.
Even if your pump is dead your CPU will still have to heat up the copper block + water around it. Takes longer than 1 minute on water.
lumineZ
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What a....??
Even when you idle and lets say you hit 30-40 celcius you still see it climb like 1 degree every second?
If that is the case you either have no thermal paste, ( and I really dont think that is the case
) or you have bad contact with the waterblock.Try and use some pressure with your fingers straight down on the waterblock so you "push" it against the IHS. Dont use excessive force ofc since there is no need to break anything. If this does nothing...
Try to re-seat the waterblock to the IHS. Use new thermal paste while you are at it.
Yes it still climbs and no I don't think it's the contact or paste issue, when it usually would idol I was below 25 degrees Celsius. Intact when I logged off for the night it was at 29 degrees. I know this bc my mother board has a temp gauge in the corner and the PC in right in my face. So when I went into the corsair link program just now, the pump wasn't even running I had 0 rpms comming from the pump. So I believe the pump just failed.
Themastererr
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Yup. Failed pump. That's unfortunate but you should be able to RMA it.
Also just a heads up the correct spelling is "idle"when you're talking about something staying the same or a car running idle. "Idol" is used when we're talking about someone we look up to. They're our "idol"
Also just a heads up the correct spelling is "idle"when you're talking about something staying the same or a car running idle. "Idol" is used when we're talking about someone we look up to. They're our "idol"
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Then fortunately it is the pump, and not a mobo failure. Always a good idea, even if you are 99% positive, to double check. Would really suck to send the aio in for rma to find out 2 weeks waiting was for nothing cuz it was really the board. Sucks anyways that it did, but a cooler is a minor issue to replace/repair.
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