temps

well i don't believe its any of what you mentioned because i didnt have this issue just a couple days or so ago. I mean i don't just get why this is happening out of the blue. I reapplied thermal paste already as i mentioned before. its nothing with the case fans because the configuration hasn't changed. and the cpu fan is definitely seated properly cause i already checked that. I still think its the processor itself that is the issue because as i said everything was working fine up until a day or 2 ago.

Have you checked your cpu voltages and power supply voltages?

i just replaced the power supply because my previous one went dead on me and i know i have connected all the power cables in the right spot because the system was working just fine up until this started. and when i went into the bios the cpu fan was running at 2000+ rpm. so if it its sponge that fast then there should be no reason for the cpu to be overheating. I believe what i have is still a processor issue here because there have been issues with the sandy bridge processors before and in fact i believe there may possibly have been a recall on them at some point by intel. I am going to contact intel on this and see what they say about this issue.

Well it appears this issue is solved but
now I have another one that has cropped up. Which I will start another thread for

Matt Siegel said:

Well it appears this issue is solved but
now I have another one that has cropped up. Which I will start another thread for

Please share the solution with us, if the problem didn't simply go away by itself.

bobkn said:

Please share the solution with us, if the problem didn't simply go away by itself.

well i thought the issue went away on its own but it seems i still have temp issues. I completely cleaned off all the old thermal paste thinking there was too much on the cpu cover so i cleaned the old stuff off completely and then reapplied just a thin layer of it. But for some reason my temps are still spiking intermittently. after talking to the people at asus the mfr of my mb; i described to them what was going on and to them it seemed to them to point to a cpu issue(again; i say again because i already had to have the cpu replaced once and i hope i don't have to do it again) because it seems like nothing else I've tried is resolving this issue thus far. as for the fan; I've made sure that is seated properly which it is and yes the heat sink too has thermal paste on it so I'm not sure where to head at this point. as i said before even for someone who has been dealing with pcs for darn near close to 30 years this one has me stumped. i will check the temps again this evening when i get home as i won't have time this morning.

still running temps in the 40s and 50s (celsius) keeps spiking to those ranges.

also just tried to run the intel processor diagnostic tool and when it started running the load test on the processor; the temp spiked to like 83c and i didnt want to risk blowing the processor up(well it could already partially be blown up who knows) so i stopped the load test before it ended to avoid any more damage.

I'm still having issues with my temps spiking here and i just don't know what more to do. I still believe it could be a bad processor possibly.