Hello forum techies, I need some advice.
Last night my computer was (presumably) working fine. This morning, my CPU is overheating to the point of the mobo's failsafe kicking in and turning it off.
I'm using an i7-920 with the stock fan, which has worked fine for the last 2ish years I've used this machine.
Going into my bios I've managed to keep it on by retarderizing (like my new word?) it a bit, turning off the Turbo function and making it a dual core.
I'm just really wondering what happened last night to make these temps shoot up overnight.
Any tips or new lines of thought for me?
Last night my computer was (presumably) working fine. This morning, my CPU is overheating to the point of the mobo's failsafe kicking in and turning it off.
I'm using an i7-920 with the stock fan, which has worked fine for the last 2ish years I've used this machine.
Going into my bios I've managed to keep it on by retarderizing (like my new word?) it a bit, turning off the Turbo function and making it a dual core.
I'm just really wondering what happened last night to make these temps shoot up overnight.
Any tips or new lines of thought for me?