Problem found, but not solved!!!

s4mmy007

s4mmy007

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Hey guys, i think i have found one of the problems to my crashing, i went to do a memtest over night with my new board in, and went into bios to set boot as usb, as saw temps of 90-raising rapidly to-95, before i turned it off. Now i installed the basic heatsink that comes with intels processors, just as a 'minimal installed onto motherboard theory' so maybe that is why, but i will re-install my antec water cooler, and if i have the same temps, what do i do?

My motherboard is the ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3. Water cooling kits have them sticky pads, and on my old motherboard, i couldnt use these, because they would interact with the metal bits causing my old motherboard to crash. Which is my theory on what is happening to this motherboard, however, with the standard heatsink/Water cooling back bracket with/without the sticky pads, it is still crashing.

Is there any idea on how to fix this? Anyone have a tutorial on youtube on how to install a water cooling kit to this motherboard? If any tutorials/knowledge on how to fix this problem is known, it will be much appreciated, its now been nearly a week trying to fix this xD.

Thanks in advance guys,
Sam
 
This^

If the stock cooler is fitted properly it'll be quite capable of keeping the CPU temperature down. Take it off, put some new paste on and refit it. You'll probably find one of the push-pins hasn't clicked into place properly. They can be really awkward.
 
The stock cooler has been fitted fine, still problems, the cpu water cooling system by antec has been fitted, and modded so the pads on the back dont the back of the motherboard metal bits, still the problem persists.
 
If the cooler is on properly but you are getting 90C plus at idle, either the temperature sensor is faulty or you've got a major hardware problem. The stuff about shorting out the motherboard with your other cooler makes me think you've broken something. PC's don't respond well to shorts :eek:
 
Broken something? Being? Motherboard, because that is brand new?
If its the cpu, broken to an extent it still works, just not well, could be due to my frying the psu???
 
Well there's absolutely no way a CPU can idle at 90 with the cooler fitted properly so either:

1) The cooler isn't on properly
2) The temperature sensor in the CPU is faulty
3) you've got a major hardware problem with the CPU or motherboard

I think that's in order of probability :) Frying your PSU or shorting your old motherboard could quite conceivably have damaged the CPU.
 
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