Hard Crashes ( help )

[Lyonheart]

Update: I had not read some of these suggestions for a few days. I removed one video card and still crashed. I tried a few dif versions of my drivers.. still crashed. The last thing i tried was adding more cooling ( 6 more fans ( i have cooler master stacker 830.. so i had lots of room for fans. Well that "seemed" to fix it.. i went several hours with zero crashed. Until just a few minutes ago.. so I'm thinking that the extra cooling helped narrow it down to some sort of healing issue. So thats where i will focus now..cpu/gpu/psu heating issues and ram as suggested.

[Lyonheart]

ok im not sure if this is right.. but your saying 70c no higher? right ow im running a test.. it shows all 4 CPUs and they are running 73-90ish .. ( was 65-72 while idol ) as soon as i started the test. this thing has water cooling.. is somthing wrong here ? hehe

Not sure if i said this.. but i bought this PC from a friend who built it for his video production company ( to do some editing at home ) he did the install.. and is no expert. He OCd the cpu and everything. Can i un-OC the cpu? I mean I'm not sure i need it to be OCd anyways.. if thats part of the problem

Update: i tested my other PC and its two cores run around 40c ish .. so I'm sure my super hot CPU is the culprit.. or it seems that way for now. I'm wondering if the water cooler is just not properly installed ? i mean I have no prob just yanking it out and getting a good air cooling solution.

[Dawnstone]

This may not be the same issue but...

My roomate just got a new PC and it was powering off randomly (in Windows, during boot up, while idling, or in a game)... we checked CPU, RAM, Hard Drive, OS, blah blah... today we swapped power supplies with another machine, and the other machine got the power-offs instead.

So if you got an extra power supply around, swap em and see if you can either A) not get the error anymore or B) get the same problem on another machine via the power supply swap.

[Lyonheart]

I think based on my testing its the CPU..( running way too hot .80-90c under load ) I think I got "punked" when I bought this from my so called friend lol.. I priced it out before I paid for it and parts alone came to 5200 ( he has receipts he gave me for 5500ish in Jan when he ordered them ) but today its still 5kish in parts alone. I paid 3200 for it. But I'm hoping the CPU isn't Fd.. that will bring it down to under 4 alone and it will seem like less of a "steal" then lol

[Lyonheart]

After running CPU tests for heat i concluded the thing was WAY to hot. The cores were averaging 80-90c and peaking at 99c under load 70-75 idol! I simply removed the water cooler block.. re applied new thermal paste.. snugged it all up and now my idol is 45-49c and under heavy load I'm averaging 60c peaks at 69 for a sec and stays floating between 58 and 61c! that is good right ? A lot better than it was! The guy who installed the system just seated the block poorly I guess.. I'm glad it was that simple.

I have not played yet.. so ill do that now and see if i can NOT crash today. ill report back those result. Thx for your tips and advice!

[Lyonheart]

No crashes in two days ? Im getting average of 72c per core when 5boxing though.. i need to get it lower.. but thats stable enough to not crash 8)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

After running CPU tests for heat i concluded the thing was WAY to hot. The cores were averaging 80-90c and peaking at 99c under load 70-75 idol! I simply removed the water cooler block.. re applied new thermal paste.. snugged it all up and now my idol is 45-49c and under heavy load I'm averaging 60c peaks at 69 for a sec and stays floating between 58 and 61c! that is good right ? A lot better than it was! The guy who installed the system just seated the block poorly I guess.. I'm glad it was that simple.

I have not played yet.. so ill do that now and see if i can NOT crash today. ill report back those result. Thx for your tips and advice!

Excellent! Yes, 70-75C for short periods isn't a big deal but average load temps of 85+ is trouble.

Glad it was a simple fix.