New
#1
Is it really overheating, bad sensor, or another problem?
I received an iBUYPOWER NE690FX for Christmas of 2013 which has had the following modifications...
Stock 300 Watt PSU replaced with a Lepa N500
8GB OEM RAM (ADATA) upgraded to 16GB Kingston HyperX (4GB x 4)
Replaced NZXT case with Thermaltake V4 Black
Added Rosewill internal card reader & USB 2.0/3.0 Hub
120mm intake fans 1 front, 1 bottom, & 1 side
120mm exhaust 1 top, 1 rear
Other Specs:
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3
AMD FX-4130 w/OEM Thermaltake H/S Fan
eVGA GeForce GT610
W/D 1TB HDD
DVD Burner
F/F to January this year I wiped the drive with DBAN, repartitioned the drive & reinstalled Win7 HP. While reinstalling some of my other software there was an awful noise which turned out to be the CPU overheating (I had to hold the power button to shut it down).
I replaced the OEM H/S Fan with the stock H/S Fan that came with an AMD FX-8350 using Arctic MX-4 thermal paste. Then used OpenHardwareMonitor & an earlier version of Core Temp to monitor temps. I began getting overheat alerts from Core Temp and it was putting the computer to sleep. So, I bought an Arctic Freezer 13 and installed it. For over 3 weeks it ran almost constantly never shut down for more than a couple of minutes while I used it to run everything it would ever need to do except internet (I actually tried to overwork it). Then one morning I noticed it had been put to sleep by Core Temp for overheating again. There was a notification in the taskbar telling me that core 3 was at 256 C (493 F), Core Temp had crashed ("stopped working and needs to close"). Since then it has happened several more times like that. The 2 times it happened while I was in the room, there was no audible warning. There's no discoloration indicating temps that high, the back of the motherboard was only warm to the touch yet it reported core 3 running at 256 C. That was with an earlier version of CoreTemp (v. 0.99.*). That computer now has the following: Core Temp 1.0 RC6, Open Hardware Monitor, Speccy & CPUID HWMonitor. I took several screenshots of 3 of these at bootup, while working, (compressing video files) and when finished.
Could the sensor have been damaged the only time I know for sure it overheated? Is there an issue with that early version of CoreTemp? Should I try another AM3+ motherboard (I have an ASUS M5A78L-M LX Plus). I'm out of ideas. I can give you just about any additional information that doesn't require me to go on the internet with that PC. Both side panels have been off since I replaced the OEM H/S Fan.
Final question...where do I go for help with a Windows XP problem?