Computer advice

[bookzombie]

A question for my more technically-minded friends out there!

I've had a problem today where my pc kept on closing down for no readily apparent reason. Not rebooting, just coming to a complete stop.

One thing that naturally occurred is that the CPU is running too hot, so I downloaded a tool to monitor it. The CPU is an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (about 3 years old) and according to what information I could dredge up should sit at 20-30C when idling. Mine is sitting at around 60C and that is with the case open (besides which my case (NZXT Zero) has about seven cooling fans, all of which are working.) As soon as it starts actually doing something the temperatures start hitting well over 100C (and I've not tried it yet with something really CPU intensive, like a game).

Any thoughts what might be causing my problem?

Comments

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

That sounds a lot like the problem I had - sudden shutdown with no warning. For me, the CPU fan was spinning but it wasn't seated properly on the CPU. In the end I bought a new fan, as the old one had a broken screw bit so I couldn't get it to stay on properly. It might be worth checking that your fan is seated properly and there's a good layer of thermal paste on there, and then try a new fan?

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the suggestion, Liz, I'll give that a try.

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

And in fact I've now found out the problem! The case has a Coolermaster Aquagate water cooled setup and the fan on the cooler isn't working. So the water is not being cooled and circulated!

So I know the problem - next stop is fixing it!