Hello,
I built a pc in December of 09 and it's been running perfectly. Then, last night, it started turning itself off in the middle of watching a movie or even just after sitting there doing next to nothing. (This happened twice in probably three hours of use.)
This morning, when I went to turn it on, it booted to show the gigabyte mobo screen, and then immediately afterward went to a black screen with a flashing line in the top left corner (like when you're typing). When I went to show my husband what was happening, it did the same thing, but this time it lasted a bit longer before stopping after the second boot screen.
Last Saturday I added 4 gb of ram to the PC and downloaded AMD overdrive so I could OC it. I never actually overclocked, though, because my core temp was already at 46C and when I started running autoclock it jumped to 75C within a few seconds. I pulled the plug on that as soon as I noticed that the cores were so high. However, now I'm thinking I might have fried my CPU.
So if anyone has any ideas (preferably less expensive ideas), please let me know!
Here's my system:
Gigabyte MA790X-UD4P
AMD Phenom II quad core 3.4GHz
8 gb DDR2
EVGA GTX 260
DVD-ROM
Western Digital 1 TB 7200 rpm HDD
Windows 7 64-bit
Thanks!
I built a pc in December of 09 and it's been running perfectly. Then, last night, it started turning itself off in the middle of watching a movie or even just after sitting there doing next to nothing. (This happened twice in probably three hours of use.)
This morning, when I went to turn it on, it booted to show the gigabyte mobo screen, and then immediately afterward went to a black screen with a flashing line in the top left corner (like when you're typing). When I went to show my husband what was happening, it did the same thing, but this time it lasted a bit longer before stopping after the second boot screen.
Last Saturday I added 4 gb of ram to the PC and downloaded AMD overdrive so I could OC it. I never actually overclocked, though, because my core temp was already at 46C and when I started running autoclock it jumped to 75C within a few seconds. I pulled the plug on that as soon as I noticed that the cores were so high. However, now I'm thinking I might have fried my CPU.
So if anyone has any ideas (preferably less expensive ideas), please let me know!
Here's my system:
Gigabyte MA790X-UD4P
AMD Phenom II quad core 3.4GHz
8 gb DDR2
EVGA GTX 260
DVD-ROM
Western Digital 1 TB 7200 rpm HDD
Windows 7 64-bit
Thanks!