Bluescreen Cpu fan error

[jaminq]

Asus z97-A
I5 4590
Stock intel cooler

Last night my PC bluescreened, it had been on for half an hour doing nothing intensive. Messing around with Notepad++, not compiling.

After, the fast reboot checked my cpu temp and cpu fan speeds.
29C and fluctuating around 800rpm based on the asus's own stock cooler profile.
Now that's cool lol but it is winter.

Just worried it's going to happen again at a more important time. Any ideas?

I know it's stock cooler and I will upgrade at a later point only for the noise at spin up, which I can't stand, but it seems to do its job on temps even under load, but the PCH suffers I think, due to the way it expels the hot air.

Thanks

 

[brarboy]

simple steps you can follow are:
Check the 4-pin plug of your cpu cooler, blow some air if needed to clean it & clean pins on motherboard of cpu cooler. Another you can try is to make sure your cpu cooler is properly attached to cpu and replace thermal paste if you doubt it.

 

[jaminq]

Thanks, always fast.
It should be clean recently cleaned system when i put graphics card in.

Anyway, temps are very good even under load and the reboot and the temp I listed was taken straight after. So don't think it's thermal paste.

I guess fan could have a defect.

But, is it possible since its the coldest day the cpu has seen, that the fan profile took the rpm lower than the fan was comfortable with. Wouldn't have thought so since the profile knows it is stock intel fan and surely Asus would have the profile set correctly for the most commonly used fan.

Is that possible?

 

[brarboy]

if there is increase in temps at the time when your fan started lowering rpm, can be one reason for getting blue screen. I wouldn't stay on fan profile but still check if the base of the cooler is in contact with processor(just press the top of cpu cooler towards processor for simple step 😀 ). The reading might go wrong if cooler isn't intact with processor, thus resulting in lower rpms.