Recent content by mcas19

I'm having some trouble with a desktop I built (I already submitted a different thread for that) and after months of frustrating troubleshooting decided to go the extreme route and just wipe everything and start from scratch. However, I wanted to move a few things onto an external SSD I have...

Also, just noticed apparently my SSD was being run as a RAW file system, and when I looked that up it said that usually meant corrupt data. Don't know if that has anything to do with it but can't have helped

Sorry, busy week. I checked BIOS and nothing seemed changed, and in the process of moving the windows boot drive to my SDD. If it is hardware what do you think would be most likely?

Hi, sorry about the late reply. Been a busy week. I checked BIOS and didn't see anything that would imply it's been changed, and currently in the process of moving Windows boot sequence to my SSD. Any other suggestions?

I don't know if I ran it like that, I just ran the default. I may be booting from the HDD, I've had to reinstall the boot drive several times and forgot where I've put it this last time. If I did I'll change it when I fix the initial problem

It'll have to wait until tomorrow. I took the heatsink off to try to both apply new paste and make sure it was attached properly but didn't realize how dusty it is inside. I don't have any compressed air on hand so I have to just wait til I get off work and pick some up. I'll do that though...

Is there a way to get to a different BIOS then pressing delete on startup? When I do that it takes me to Gigabyte Dualbios. I don't know if that's the same but I don't see anywhere in there where I would be able to mess with clock rates or pretty much any CPU setting

Nope, I meant %. I was running the Core Temp app and they were running 20-30% when it was just the app and some background stuff open. As soon as I clicked one of the (many) youtube links I have and it started to load the video it jumped to 60-90% on all 4 cores. I haven't touched any of the CPU...

So I loaded up a youtube vid and happened to be watching the Core Temp app while it's playing. The load instantly jumped from around 25-30% to 60-90%...

Is there a safe way to do that? Like I said I just tried running Prime95 and it crashed instantly

It appears to be running well within normal bounds. A quick google says it can run up to 80 deg safely and when I ran the temp scan it rarely hit 28 per core

Is that something I should do now or when I solve this problem? Cause I've been working with the same settings for roughly 3 years and only started having issues a few months ago

So I just tried running prime95 and it instantly crashed my computer. I don't know if it overloaded the cpu or what but everything froze and I had to hard reboot

Fan is working and should be oriented correctly. It's the same way it's been the 3ish years I've had it installed. How to do I stress the cpu in a controlled way to watch for fluctuations?

I tried to look up how to set an XMP but I guess I don't have one. I looked in BIOS but there wasn't any option and when I looked it up it said not all motherboards or RAM support it. Not sure if I just missed it or if it really doesn't have the setting