My BIOS says 93 degrees Cel. Causing random shutdowns?

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young wing

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Im trying to install XP on my computer. It shuts down every few mintues.

I turned on computer, went into BIOS (EVGA 680i) and it says my CPU temp

is 90 degrees C./199 degrees F. I have artic silver 5 on it, as well as the stock HSF,

appears to be working fine. What to do?
 
I just noticed my HSF was not on solid. Some of the white pins are bent back. Ill try to remount it.
 
im guessing the heatsink isnt installed correctly, or you are trying to overclock and did it horribly wrong. try setting the vCore manualy to 1.35 (if reseating the heatsink doesnt work)

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I just noticed my HSF was not on solid
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that'll do it
 
Now I am in the BIOS, CPU idling at 53c. Board is 35 and MCP 51.

I read that the 30s is normal, hows low 50s?

Il prob buy a new HSF this week.
 
53c on idle is very high (depending on the overclock) if its at stock speed then your heatsink still might not be on right those stupid retention posts suck to say the least.
 
Yea, thats what I thought. The posts are very secure, as far as I can tell. They clicked when I installed. I just put my 250mm fan from my side case on, maybe that will help a bit. Once WIN gets installed Ill screw with that more. Thanks guys, big help.
 
did you clean off the as5 and then reapply as5 when you noticed it wasnt on tight?
 
I have the HSF on totally secure, with a new thin layer of AS 5. In the BIOS I am getting a 73+c reading. I have a few case fans on, everything is working. Any more Ideas besides buying a new HSF, which I plan on doing this week.
 
After you click the pins in, are you turning them ? (you should not, thats to remove the heatsink), Its the only thing I can think of other than somehow one popped out or is damaged and just will not hold like it should. temps way way too high if 73C and 73F is too low. Something is still not right if thats a cpu temp.
 
[ T ] A C O;1030786398 said:
I have the HSF on totally secure, with a new thin layer of AS 5. In the BIOS I am getting a 73+c reading. I have a few case fans on, everything is working. Any more Ideas besides buying a new HSF, which I plan on doing this week.
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No no no, something is not right. Did you clean the HSF & CPU completely of Thermal Grease? If you did, and you re-applied it to the CPU in a thin layer, it's probably not making contact somewhere or the Fan on your heatsink is rotating too slow (broken?).
 
I did not turn them when installing. I push them down till they click. I added a minuscule amount of AS5 again. It seems as if it is seated perfectly. I was running XP importing videos and everything else and the fanspeed program (i forget the name) said it was at 55c. I am getting two very different readings.
 
Ok, now the BIOS is telling me its at 49c. I reseated the HSF a few times. This is the best its been yet. Thanks for the help.

Also which should I believe SpeedFan or the BIOS?
 
I like coretemp best of all, small quick, no big install just unzip in a folder and run. Very accurate but since its reading the actual internal cores it will give higher than some but I cant remember, I think speedfan was updated to read cores too. Anyway its what a lot of us use and gives some nice info if you are overclocking.

http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/
 
Id trust bios more, but Speedfan doesnt seem to differ much either, nor does the software(ie probe, Ai) that came with my mobo.
 
BillParrish said:
I like coretemp best of all, small quick, no big install just unzip in a folder and run. Very accurate but since its reading the actual internal cores it will give higher than some but I cant remember, I think speedfan was updated to read cores too. Anyway its what a lot of us use and gives some nice info if you are overclocking.

http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/
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Nice link thx.

This seems to be accurate too(cores). does VID stand for GFX card? coz it says 1.3250v - shouldn't it be 1.5v?
 
Thanks for the help and links guys. Everything seems to be ok, Speedfan is still around 40-43.
 
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Ummm, no I did not. Are you not supposed to "reuse" it?
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I've reused some before but never any that's seen such extreme heat. Glad I could help.
 
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