Hello everyone,
I've been having issues for a while and done multiple things to try to figure it out. My computer used to reset quite a bit, I eventually noticed the CPU was running hot and blew out the heatsink of the cpu and the gpu with condensed air (they were caked with some dust) which stopped the constant resetting, but this caused some issues such as in a game I was playing when I get to a character select screen the graphics look hyper accelerated, and it won't actually let me choose to enter the game, the buttons indent like I'm clicking on them but nothing happens. Now I can't really stress my system much (Prime 95 locks up my system after the cpu gets to about 75 degrees, but I can run 3dMark 11 demo, cpu goes between 70 and 74 degrees). Also when running 3dmark 11 the graphics look fine, it gets down to 9 fps on a couple of areas but it actually handles things quite well surprisingly. One kind person on these forums has been going back and forth with me a bit and given me a few tips that I needed to check out.
Below is my HWMonitor capture after running 3dMark 11 demo:
The kind person on these boards said one of the voltages looked like it was bad, and the motherboard sensor wasn't calibrated? So I needed to run a voltage monitor to check it out. I went out and purchased a voltage meter today
. After reading up I assume it's the 3.3v that is a bit off? I'm a bit lost to be honest.
How exactly do I test what needs to be tested? Is it a specific capacitor on the motherboard? I've checked the manual but I can't find the specific capacitors I'm looking for...if that's even what I"m looking for. I'm assuming I either have an issue with my motherboard or psu. Another issue I've been having is sometimes after going into my computer the graphics card isn't being detected. I have to re-seat it a few times and try to unplug and replug the wires back into the graphics card a few times to get it working (I've tried different PCIE slots, same thing happens).
System specs:
CPU - AMD FX 8350
MOBO - ASUS Sabertooth 990fx r2.0
Vid Card - Nvidia GTX460 (this is changing soon to a gtx 970)
Audio - ASUS Xonar Essence STX
Ram- G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB X2
Seagate 2tb HDD
Samsung 840 pro 256 GB SSD
Case - Antec 900
I'm sorry to be a bother 🙁 thank you for any help you can provide.
I've been having issues for a while and done multiple things to try to figure it out. My computer used to reset quite a bit, I eventually noticed the CPU was running hot and blew out the heatsink of the cpu and the gpu with condensed air (they were caked with some dust) which stopped the constant resetting, but this caused some issues such as in a game I was playing when I get to a character select screen the graphics look hyper accelerated, and it won't actually let me choose to enter the game, the buttons indent like I'm clicking on them but nothing happens. Now I can't really stress my system much (Prime 95 locks up my system after the cpu gets to about 75 degrees, but I can run 3dMark 11 demo, cpu goes between 70 and 74 degrees). Also when running 3dmark 11 the graphics look fine, it gets down to 9 fps on a couple of areas but it actually handles things quite well surprisingly. One kind person on these forums has been going back and forth with me a bit and given me a few tips that I needed to check out.
Below is my HWMonitor capture after running 3dMark 11 demo:

The kind person on these boards said one of the voltages looked like it was bad, and the motherboard sensor wasn't calibrated? So I needed to run a voltage monitor to check it out. I went out and purchased a voltage meter today

How exactly do I test what needs to be tested? Is it a specific capacitor on the motherboard? I've checked the manual but I can't find the specific capacitors I'm looking for...if that's even what I"m looking for. I'm assuming I either have an issue with my motherboard or psu. Another issue I've been having is sometimes after going into my computer the graphics card isn't being detected. I have to re-seat it a few times and try to unplug and replug the wires back into the graphics card a few times to get it working (I've tried different PCIE slots, same thing happens).
System specs:
CPU - AMD FX 8350
MOBO - ASUS Sabertooth 990fx r2.0
Vid Card - Nvidia GTX460 (this is changing soon to a gtx 970)
Audio - ASUS Xonar Essence STX
Ram- G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB X2
Seagate 2tb HDD
Samsung 840 pro 256 GB SSD
Case - Antec 900
I'm sorry to be a bother 🙁 thank you for any help you can provide.