- Dec 15, 2023
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Yesterday I restarted my new Chillblast PC for the first time, late at night, When it rebooted it was fully throttled. I checked the icue software - CPU temperature was 100*C for ALL CORES. GPU temperature was normal. Fans were at moderate speed as far as I know. A few seconds later it crashed.
I waited and then pushed the power button. It came back and gave me the blue screen of death, followed by an attempted restart/crash into some sort of ‘low power mode’ in which the monitor showed no signs of life, but fans had RGB on and span slowly.
I tried turning it on again, this time managing to see an error message from the BIOS, followed by another crash a few seconds later. Unwilling to risk any actual damage to the CPU (I assumed a sensor failure but didn’t want to push it) I shut it down fully with the power switch at the back.
This morning, I tried pushing the power button but it entered the same ‘low power mode’ when I did so. I rang tech support and they told me about some reseating processes. First I entered BIOS. CPU temp was normal, 26*C. I saved and exited with F10. Then it failed to start the operating system. I unplugged all peripherals barring the monitor.
Finally, it started properly with NO apparent problems at all. This afternoon I played some Baldur’s Gate 3 - each CPU core barely cracked 40*C and the GPU was under 50*C! It’s normally up to 55*C at light load.
Then, after leaving it idle for 45 minutes just now, with NOTHING open, I wake it up from sleep, lo and behold the temperatures are 100*C for every core again. I even managed to check the bios for a few seconds upon an attempted restart and that said the overall CPU was 100*C too, and now I’m concerned. I have been told to try doing a CMOS reset, memory reseat and graphics card reseat next, but if anyone has any ideas or experience with this, I would love to hear it.
Computing:
Intel core i7 14700KF
Gigabyte AORUS ELITE AX Intel Motherboard
Palit GeForce RTX 4080 16GB
Kingston Fury Beast RGB 64GB (2x32GB) 6000MHz
Solidigm P44 Pro 2TB M.2-2280 PCle 4.0 x4 NVMe
Cooling:
Arctic P12 PWM PST A-RGB Semi-Passive 120mm Chassis Fan
Corsair H100X RGB ELITE 240mm AiO Liquid CPU Cooler
Other:
Corsair RMx Shift Series 1000W Modular PSU
Windows 11
Fractal North Case
I waited and then pushed the power button. It came back and gave me the blue screen of death, followed by an attempted restart/crash into some sort of ‘low power mode’ in which the monitor showed no signs of life, but fans had RGB on and span slowly.
I tried turning it on again, this time managing to see an error message from the BIOS, followed by another crash a few seconds later. Unwilling to risk any actual damage to the CPU (I assumed a sensor failure but didn’t want to push it) I shut it down fully with the power switch at the back.
This morning, I tried pushing the power button but it entered the same ‘low power mode’ when I did so. I rang tech support and they told me about some reseating processes. First I entered BIOS. CPU temp was normal, 26*C. I saved and exited with F10. Then it failed to start the operating system. I unplugged all peripherals barring the monitor.
Finally, it started properly with NO apparent problems at all. This afternoon I played some Baldur’s Gate 3 - each CPU core barely cracked 40*C and the GPU was under 50*C! It’s normally up to 55*C at light load.
Then, after leaving it idle for 45 minutes just now, with NOTHING open, I wake it up from sleep, lo and behold the temperatures are 100*C for every core again. I even managed to check the bios for a few seconds upon an attempted restart and that said the overall CPU was 100*C too, and now I’m concerned. I have been told to try doing a CMOS reset, memory reseat and graphics card reseat next, but if anyone has any ideas or experience with this, I would love to hear it.
Computing:
Intel core i7 14700KF
Gigabyte AORUS ELITE AX Intel Motherboard
Palit GeForce RTX 4080 16GB
Kingston Fury Beast RGB 64GB (2x32GB) 6000MHz
Solidigm P44 Pro 2TB M.2-2280 PCle 4.0 x4 NVMe
Cooling:
Arctic P12 PWM PST A-RGB Semi-Passive 120mm Chassis Fan
Corsair H100X RGB ELITE 240mm AiO Liquid CPU Cooler
Other:
Corsair RMx Shift Series 1000W Modular PSU
Windows 11
Fractal North Case
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