HI there
I'm currently in the process of troubleshooting a computer. When I first built it, the computer booted fine - I then decided to stress test the pc. Running Unigine Heaven the total system power consumption was at 250W. I then ran prime 95 and power consumption was around 170 W IIRC. I ran the test for 5 minutes before the computer suddenly froze and shutdown. I rebooted the pc and tried to run prime95 again looking at hwmonitor to see if anything was out of the ordinary. After another 5 minutes I saw smoke coming from either the center of the motherboard or the cpu so I shut the system off.
Now when I boot my pc, the fans suddenly go full blast after around 1 minute - I cannot boot into windows. I think that the cpu may be overheating or dying. I've reapplied some thermal paste to see if it helps but there has been no change.
I would appreciate any thoughts.
Specs:
Motherboard: HP Z200 Workstation
CPU: Xeon x3450
Storage: 1 TB Hard Drive
Graphics: RX 470 Sapphire Nitro
Power Supply: 350 W Stock HP Z200 Power Supply
I'm currently in the process of troubleshooting a computer. When I first built it, the computer booted fine - I then decided to stress test the pc. Running Unigine Heaven the total system power consumption was at 250W. I then ran prime 95 and power consumption was around 170 W IIRC. I ran the test for 5 minutes before the computer suddenly froze and shutdown. I rebooted the pc and tried to run prime95 again looking at hwmonitor to see if anything was out of the ordinary. After another 5 minutes I saw smoke coming from either the center of the motherboard or the cpu so I shut the system off.
Now when I boot my pc, the fans suddenly go full blast after around 1 minute - I cannot boot into windows. I think that the cpu may be overheating or dying. I've reapplied some thermal paste to see if it helps but there has been no change.
I would appreciate any thoughts.
Specs:
Motherboard: HP Z200 Workstation
CPU: Xeon x3450
Storage: 1 TB Hard Drive
Graphics: RX 470 Sapphire Nitro
Power Supply: 350 W Stock HP Z200 Power Supply