- Nov 2, 2018
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I'm using a hand-me-down pc that I got in May 2018. It is about 2.5 years old.
It has been running great until last week, while I was playing a game and running a couple other programs (Spotify, internet browser, etc), my pc started lagging like crazy and then I got the Windows Blue screen error: WHEA Uncorrectable Error.
Now I can barely even boot into windows before I get the blue screen crash. I booted and went into bios and saw, seconds after startup my cpu was climbing to 50-60C before I shut it down. With the case open, i can feel heat radiating off the back of the motherboard where the cpu is.
After it cooled down, I unplugged everything, cleaned the whole case with compressed air, and swapped out psu since I had a spare 1000W gold evga with new cables. I also removed the heatsink from the cpu, removed the old thermal paste, and applied new thermal paste. I haven't bothered replugging in the gpu (gigabyte 980Ti) since my mobo has on board graphics. I plug the hdmi from my monitor directly into the mobo to get a display.
Both my 2 case fans and the 2 radiator fans run. The NZXT Kraken cooler lights up like normal. I never noticed there being a noise (I'm not that attentive I guess) before, but the pump does not make any noise and I don't feel any "vibrations" when i put my hand on the pump.
So i'm thinking the cooler pump that connects to the cpu might be dead, however, I don't have a stock heat sink to test the cpu/mobo with. My big issue is that I don't have a ton of money to spend on this. I am wondering if the cooler is the first thing I should think about replacing/if its even worth it/etc.
Also, how do I know for sure that my pump is dead?
Case: NZXT (not sure what model)
AIO : NZXT Kraken (not sure what model I think it is the x52)
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 4.0 GHz
MOBO: MSI Z97A GAMING 9 ACK
RAM: 16 GB DDR3n(G.Skill Sniper)
PSU: EVGA 1000W gold
Samsung 850 Evo 500 GB SSD
It has been running great until last week, while I was playing a game and running a couple other programs (Spotify, internet browser, etc), my pc started lagging like crazy and then I got the Windows Blue screen error: WHEA Uncorrectable Error.
Now I can barely even boot into windows before I get the blue screen crash. I booted and went into bios and saw, seconds after startup my cpu was climbing to 50-60C before I shut it down. With the case open, i can feel heat radiating off the back of the motherboard where the cpu is.
After it cooled down, I unplugged everything, cleaned the whole case with compressed air, and swapped out psu since I had a spare 1000W gold evga with new cables. I also removed the heatsink from the cpu, removed the old thermal paste, and applied new thermal paste. I haven't bothered replugging in the gpu (gigabyte 980Ti) since my mobo has on board graphics. I plug the hdmi from my monitor directly into the mobo to get a display.
Both my 2 case fans and the 2 radiator fans run. The NZXT Kraken cooler lights up like normal. I never noticed there being a noise (I'm not that attentive I guess) before, but the pump does not make any noise and I don't feel any "vibrations" when i put my hand on the pump.
So i'm thinking the cooler pump that connects to the cpu might be dead, however, I don't have a stock heat sink to test the cpu/mobo with. My big issue is that I don't have a ton of money to spend on this. I am wondering if the cooler is the first thing I should think about replacing/if its even worth it/etc.
Also, how do I know for sure that my pump is dead?
Case: NZXT (not sure what model)
AIO : NZXT Kraken (not sure what model I think it is the x52)
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 4.0 GHz
MOBO: MSI Z97A GAMING 9 ACK
RAM: 16 GB DDR3n(G.Skill Sniper)
PSU: EVGA 1000W gold
Samsung 850 Evo 500 GB SSD
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