I'm having quite the strange, prolonged problem. Before applying this obscure, ambiguous ritual every time after moving my case, my PC has a bit of an issue with revving its fans hard and shutting down a few seconds afterwards. I've never been able to figure it out, and have reset just about every part of the machine over and over again with limited success. Thoughts?
Go into your BIOS, disable 'smart-fan' or adaptive cooling, or anything that looks like it will ramp you fan speed in relation to your CPU activity.
Luin's old desktop used to do that, it was annoying.
(11-07-2009, 01:47 PM)HeK link Wrote: [ -> ]Go into your BIOS, disable 'smart-fan' or adaptive cooling, or anything that looks like it will ramp you fan speed in relation to your CPU activity.
Luin's old desktop used to do that, it was annoying.
And this will fix the CRASHING problem, correct?
(11-10-2009, 12:35 AM)Chronomaster link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=HeK link=topic=3815.msg121568#msg121568 date=1257619677]
Go into your BIOS, disable 'smart-fan' or adaptive cooling, or anything that looks like it will ramp you fan speed in relation to your CPU activity.
Luin's old desktop used to do that, it was annoying.
And this will fix the CRASHING problem, correct?
[/quote]If the CRASHING problem is due to overheat, then yes it should. Otherwise, the two are unrelated.
(11-10-2009, 03:29 PM)at0m link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=Chronomaster link=topic=3815.msg121913#msg121913 date=1257831314]
[quote author=HeK link=topic=3815.msg121568#msg121568 date=1257619677]
Go into your BIOS, disable 'smart-fan' or adaptive cooling, or anything that looks like it will ramp you fan speed in relation to your CPU activity.
Luin's old desktop used to do that, it was annoying.
And this will fix the CRASHING problem, correct?
[/quote]If the CRASHING problem is due to overheat, then yes it should. Otherwise, the two are unrelated.
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^ That
If the fans aren't rev'ing properly it might be that as your comp heats up it tries to get the fans to spin faster, but they don't spin up fast enough. This would cause the motherboard to initiate an emergency shutdown to avoid any heat damage.
If you run the fans at 100% from boot and it still crashes the problem may still be heat but it shouldn't "rev" anymore
All this revving and crashing made me think about spaceships. ???
If you do overheat your CPU on a regular basis, you can actually cook your thermal compound and drastically reduce it's thermal conductance.
When my old PC was locking up on me during gaming, I ended up cleaning and applying new compound (I had to buy more... last time I got Arctic Silver 2, now they are up to 7 or something) and the world was a happy place again.
Found out my GPU fan was hitching on an interior ridge, preventing it from spinning properly. Case smelled like hot immediately afterwards, but not smoky so I think I'm still in the clear for now.
Now I just have to wait on the thermal compound that I plan to reapply to both the CPU and GPU fans.
Also one of my case fans is a little faulty. Can't get a break, really. Lousy fans everywhere.