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cobramonkey

cobramonkey

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Ok, so here's the deal. I built a rig last April: i7 930 processor, 6 gigs ddr 3 ram, gigabyte X58A mobo, 750 watt corsair PSU, SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100283VXL Radeon HD 5770 1GB. The end of last year brought the PC to not posting, or accepting any USB keyboards or mice through any USB plugs. So, gigabyte RMA'd it, and that problem seems solved. However, the OS seemed to have hosed itself after I reassembled everything. It tried to update Windows 7, got stuck and wouldn't allow me to access anything, after several attempts of restoring, one finally took and I could access stuff. Pulled off pertinent, mildly irreplaceable docs, and just took the opportunity of reinstalling Win 7 and went ahead and through in a SSD for the OS. Should have done that with initial build. Now, it keeps overheating and turning off, not shutting down, interspersed with BSOD saying memory issues. Kinda at wit's end.
 
Also, I have removed all the components, checked for any visual issues, at least 4 times now. Swapped the thermal paste from the cheap Best Buy stuff to some Arctic Silver even. Same results.
 
Have you checked the event log, system or application events may show you what last went wrong, although system shut off, is normally related to several things, your CPU is getting hot due to inadequate cooling, the heatsink is not seated properly, or your power supply has got issues.
 
Well, you sort of need to start over. Take everything out of the case......

Put everything at default, take out all but one RAM stick and start testing the RAM with memtest.

If the CPU is overheating at stock voltage you have a bad heatsink application, most likely.
 
Ok, so the event viewer has several critical events listed, well, several occasions of the same one. Sounds like the bugger.

Log Name: System
Source: Kernel-Power
Event ID: 41
Level: Critical
User: System
OpCode: Info
Task Category: (63)
Keywords: (2)
Computer: Companion_Cube

Anyone know if that is actually telling me something more specific than a power loss?

Also, why would the CPU heatsink be having issues occurring months after build?
 
Yeah that could be CPU issue or heat damage issue or both.

As for the HSF issue, could have became defective over time and use.
 
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