CPU Temp Spikes (I think)

[TheDirectorChris21]

Ok everyone, I'm at a loss here. A couple of days ago. I decided to start messing around with my computer. I have a gaming rig from Cyberpower. I rearranged the neon and I was going to do a couple of other things as well.

Well, I shut it down, not sleep, full blown shut down and pulled an external USB 3.0 hard drive out and suddenly the stupid thing booted...out of shut down.

After that, every time I would shut it down, about 10 seconds later, it would boot itself back up. not only that but the USB 3.0 ports were not working.

Well, after trying numerous things to no avail. My lack of patience got the best of me. I shut the computer down again and as soon as the lights went out, I flipped the switch on the PSU and yanked the power cord out, then I let it sit for about an hour.

I came back, plugged the cord back in, flipped the PSU on and it came on like it used to. No rebooting after shutdown and wouldn't you know it, the stupid USB ports worked as well. I thought I was out of the woods...nope.

Now my cpu seems to be spiking in temp, even at idle because every few seconds, I'll hear the fan increase it's RPM and then go back down, all in a matter of a second or two.

I think it's the CPU fan and not the GPU, however, I could be wrong. My money is on something on the motherboard shorted when I pulled the USB cable out when I was fiddling. Does anyone know what the problem might be. Sorry for being long winded but as you can see, this is a complicated clusterf***.

My Specs:
Board - Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4
CPU - i7-3820 3.6 GHZ
GPU - GTX 660 ti 2GB Evga Superclocked
RAM - 16 GB Kingston Hyper X 1600 (I think)
PSU - Corsair TX850
Case - Corsair 800D
CPU cooler - Thermaltake Frio OCK (big son of a b***)

 

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Sounds like a motherboard issue, although I can't be sure. The motherboard handles fan speeds, CPU voltages, booting, and USB ports, so if there's one thing going wrong, it's probably the motherboard.

I highly doubt you shorted it or hurt it physically pulling out the USB drive, although it's possible it was in the process of booting while you were pulling out the drive, in which case it's possible it got freaked. Motherboards can be like that. Mine has done weird things every now and then when I try to force a higher base clock.

If it's operational enough to update the BIOS, that's what I would recommend. Even if you're already at the latest version, flashing the BIOS couldn't hurt, just in case it got corrupt.

Also, when you got your system from Cyberpower, did you have any factory overclocking done? That could affect things. Like I said, adjustments to the base clock or certain voltages, especially memory voltages, can throw things off massively.