Hello all, I'm new to the board. I did a search but hadn't come up with anything; please forgive my (slightly) inebriated query...
I built a system around a P5k-e about a month ago. Everything has been great up until an hour ago or so. Suddenly things slowed to a crawl. After a hard reboot I ran Asus PC Probe (or whatever it's called) and found that my mobo temperature was at 45c. After letting it cool off a few hours I tried again, but the temperature slowly crawled back up until I had to shut down again. The heat is concentrated in the cooling pipe near the CPU, but the CPU itself is OK.
Of course, this has all happened just a few days after newegg's 30 day return on the board has expired.
So my question is, is this board faulty? Can the problem be remedied with more powerful fans, perhaps a better case, etc? I'm very nervous because this is my work machine- it pays my rent. I've built quite a few PC's before but this is my first since the 478 days. This machine replaced my old intel 478 1.8g dinosaur I'd been using.
Specs: Asus P5k-e, Intel Q6600 2.4 (no OC), 4gigs Kingston KHX series 1066 RAM, 2x Seagate 250gig SATA HDs (no RAID), Asus EN7200GS 256M Video card (fanless, admittedly generates a bit of heat), 1 LiteOn SATA DVDR, 1 LiteOn IDE DVD rom, floppy drive, internal 3.5 USB/FW hub, Zalman CNPS9500A LED CPU cooler (fan speed turned up max for now), Zalman ZM750 PSU. The case is the same Lian-Li PC-61 case I was using for my previous build (large aluminum tower case). Three 80mm case fans (2 front, 1 rear). Currently they're all connected to the mobo. I'd like to replace the rear fan with something better.
This PC is a dual-boot running Windows Vista Ultimate (32) in which I experienced the problem, and XP home. It's configured as a music production/DAW/Pro Tools system. The problem occurred while running a particular Pro Tools session which had a lot of processing but still was not taxing the CPU very hard.
Any ideas? Or do I need to contact ASUS?
I built a system around a P5k-e about a month ago. Everything has been great up until an hour ago or so. Suddenly things slowed to a crawl. After a hard reboot I ran Asus PC Probe (or whatever it's called) and found that my mobo temperature was at 45c. After letting it cool off a few hours I tried again, but the temperature slowly crawled back up until I had to shut down again. The heat is concentrated in the cooling pipe near the CPU, but the CPU itself is OK.
Of course, this has all happened just a few days after newegg's 30 day return on the board has expired.
So my question is, is this board faulty? Can the problem be remedied with more powerful fans, perhaps a better case, etc? I'm very nervous because this is my work machine- it pays my rent. I've built quite a few PC's before but this is my first since the 478 days. This machine replaced my old intel 478 1.8g dinosaur I'd been using.
Specs: Asus P5k-e, Intel Q6600 2.4 (no OC), 4gigs Kingston KHX series 1066 RAM, 2x Seagate 250gig SATA HDs (no RAID), Asus EN7200GS 256M Video card (fanless, admittedly generates a bit of heat), 1 LiteOn SATA DVDR, 1 LiteOn IDE DVD rom, floppy drive, internal 3.5 USB/FW hub, Zalman CNPS9500A LED CPU cooler (fan speed turned up max for now), Zalman ZM750 PSU. The case is the same Lian-Li PC-61 case I was using for my previous build (large aluminum tower case). Three 80mm case fans (2 front, 1 rear). Currently they're all connected to the mobo. I'd like to replace the rear fan with something better.
This PC is a dual-boot running Windows Vista Ultimate (32) in which I experienced the problem, and XP home. It's configured as a music production/DAW/Pro Tools system. The problem occurred while running a particular Pro Tools session which had a lot of processing but still was not taxing the CPU very hard.
Any ideas? Or do I need to contact ASUS?