S
S. Whitmore
I recently upgraded my system and now have a new AMD Athlon 64 3200+ on
a new ASUS K8V SE Deluxe mobo, with a new Enermax 470W "Noisetaker" PSU.
Ambient temps have been consistenly in the 65-75F range, and for the
couple of weeks I've had the new hardware running, the mobo and CPU
temps have been pretty consistently in the 75-85F range (depending on
load, of course, and lately I haven't been doing much as I also
reorganized my hard drives and I'm still getting things reinstalled and
reconfigured). Those temps are as reported by ASUS PC Probe, which I
have running all the time in the background (i.e., tooltray).
Tonight I got the unpleasant surprise of my system shutting down
suddenly. No warning, no error, no alarm or alert from PC Probe, no
gentle close -- just suddenly a dark screen, silence, and the monitor
shifting into sleep mode. I powered it up again and it ran for a short
time and then it shut down again, just as abruptly. Both times, the
Ethernet indicators were still lit on the mobo and the PSU was doing
it's post-shutdown cool-down (this PSU continues exhausting the case for
a couple minutes after shutdown).
My first "suspect" was a power problem, specifically with the UPS,
because another of the same type that I got in the same order from
newegg.com just went back w/ an RMA today. But it didn't really seem
right, so I did some looking online in various discussion groups. Most
pointed to either a PSU failure (possible) or a temp problem. I didn't
think it would be temp related because the system wasn't under any real
load and hadn't been on very long. The first time it happened, I was in
the middle of rebooting after changing my network configuration. The
second time it happened I was just reading a message in Mozilla mail.
Despite thinking it wasn't a temp problem, I decided it was easy to
check for that, so I booted the system and went right into the BIOS
Setup. Watched, and didn't like what I saw. The mobo temp stayed in
the same range it's been in, but the CPU was steadily climbing as I
watched. When it got to 110F (after about 3 or 4 minutes) I shut it
down, since I was already seeing what looked to me like bad behavior.
(I'm assuming sitting and watching the hardware monitor in the BIOS
Setup does not impose much of a CPU load -- am I wrong?)
After awhile, I decided to ask online, so I booted up to Windows 2000.
As I write this message, PC Probe is again saying that my CPU temp is in
the 75-85F range (at the moment, 28C/82F). So maybe the problem has
gone away for now, or maybe PC Probe isn't reporting temps correctly.
I would appreciate ideas and input on this abrupt shutdown problem
and/or the CPU temp behavior that I'm seeing.
TIA,
a new ASUS K8V SE Deluxe mobo, with a new Enermax 470W "Noisetaker" PSU.
Ambient temps have been consistenly in the 65-75F range, and for the
couple of weeks I've had the new hardware running, the mobo and CPU
temps have been pretty consistently in the 75-85F range (depending on
load, of course, and lately I haven't been doing much as I also
reorganized my hard drives and I'm still getting things reinstalled and
reconfigured). Those temps are as reported by ASUS PC Probe, which I
have running all the time in the background (i.e., tooltray).
Tonight I got the unpleasant surprise of my system shutting down
suddenly. No warning, no error, no alarm or alert from PC Probe, no
gentle close -- just suddenly a dark screen, silence, and the monitor
shifting into sleep mode. I powered it up again and it ran for a short
time and then it shut down again, just as abruptly. Both times, the
Ethernet indicators were still lit on the mobo and the PSU was doing
it's post-shutdown cool-down (this PSU continues exhausting the case for
a couple minutes after shutdown).
My first "suspect" was a power problem, specifically with the UPS,
because another of the same type that I got in the same order from
newegg.com just went back w/ an RMA today. But it didn't really seem
right, so I did some looking online in various discussion groups. Most
pointed to either a PSU failure (possible) or a temp problem. I didn't
think it would be temp related because the system wasn't under any real
load and hadn't been on very long. The first time it happened, I was in
the middle of rebooting after changing my network configuration. The
second time it happened I was just reading a message in Mozilla mail.
Despite thinking it wasn't a temp problem, I decided it was easy to
check for that, so I booted the system and went right into the BIOS
Setup. Watched, and didn't like what I saw. The mobo temp stayed in
the same range it's been in, but the CPU was steadily climbing as I
watched. When it got to 110F (after about 3 or 4 minutes) I shut it
down, since I was already seeing what looked to me like bad behavior.
(I'm assuming sitting and watching the hardware monitor in the BIOS
Setup does not impose much of a CPU load -- am I wrong?)
After awhile, I decided to ask online, so I booted up to Windows 2000.
As I write this message, PC Probe is again saying that my CPU temp is in
the 75-85F range (at the moment, 28C/82F). So maybe the problem has
gone away for now, or maybe PC Probe isn't reporting temps correctly.
I would appreciate ideas and input on this abrupt shutdown problem
and/or the CPU temp behavior that I'm seeing.
TIA,