Hey guys.
Some of you may have read my thread here, http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17568090&highlight=games+crash
Basically games were freezing my PC after I built. I managed to fix this problem by taking one stick of my RAM out the green DIMM slot and putting it in to the purple one.
Games have been running absolutely fine since then.. until today. I'm totally confused, they've started crashing despite me not doing anything inside the PC since the RAM thing or installing anything that might cause the crashes. I had a look inside my PC and the RAM is seated correctly.
I decided to check if it was anything to do with the temperature of my PC. I have a program called 'Core Center' which came with my MSI board (full system specs in my sig) and it usually reports cpu temperatures of around 30-45c and system temperatures of 25-35c. My ATI software generally reports my graphics card to running at about 45c-60c depending on whether I've just gamed and what not.
Just to make absolutely sure it's not a temperature thing I also downloaded 'Motherboard Monitor' and straight away it reported that my system/cpu/motherboard (dunno exactly what it monitors?) was running at 127c
. An alarm sounded and I shut down my PC.
I was pretty sure there must have been a mistake, I mean why would Core Center report temperatures so inaccurately if the Motherboard Monitor was right?
After about 20 mins I started up my PC again and then opened Core Center and at first it showed the same normal temperatures previously stated 3 paragraphs up. Suddenly though the cpu temperature shot up to 125c and an alarm sounded and I shut down my PC.
Why all of a sudden is my PC overheating when before it seemed just fine?? And what should I do about it exactly? Do I need a new heatsink and will my CPU have been damaged? I opened up the case and all fans were spinning as they should be..
Some of you may have read my thread here, http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17568090&highlight=games+crash
Basically games were freezing my PC after I built. I managed to fix this problem by taking one stick of my RAM out the green DIMM slot and putting it in to the purple one.
Games have been running absolutely fine since then.. until today. I'm totally confused, they've started crashing despite me not doing anything inside the PC since the RAM thing or installing anything that might cause the crashes. I had a look inside my PC and the RAM is seated correctly.
I decided to check if it was anything to do with the temperature of my PC. I have a program called 'Core Center' which came with my MSI board (full system specs in my sig) and it usually reports cpu temperatures of around 30-45c and system temperatures of 25-35c. My ATI software generally reports my graphics card to running at about 45c-60c depending on whether I've just gamed and what not.
Just to make absolutely sure it's not a temperature thing I also downloaded 'Motherboard Monitor' and straight away it reported that my system/cpu/motherboard (dunno exactly what it monitors?) was running at 127c
. An alarm sounded and I shut down my PC.I was pretty sure there must have been a mistake, I mean why would Core Center report temperatures so inaccurately if the Motherboard Monitor was right?
After about 20 mins I started up my PC again and then opened Core Center and at first it showed the same normal temperatures previously stated 3 paragraphs up. Suddenly though the cpu temperature shot up to 125c and an alarm sounded and I shut down my PC.
Why all of a sudden is my PC overheating when before it seemed just fine?? And what should I do about it exactly? Do I need a new heatsink and will my CPU have been damaged? I opened up the case and all fans were spinning as they should be..
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