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When the CPU was 84°C, the room temperature was 32°C, and the CPU was working at (nearly) 100%.
When the CPU was 84°C, the room temperature was 32°C, and the CPU was working at (nearly) 100%.
I agree with your check list Sygnus but a ropey CMOS might cause reboots but do agree the usual signs of trouble is date/time.
But I have had one new board arrive, no battery and another where it wasn't seating properly.
It would be a rare occurrence, from new a CMOS battery was an issue but if I have built from new or a major repair for others with older PC, I change the battery, it's more for piece of mind, then issues.
But I also agree with Ghot, new MOBOs and quality assurance testers are not always a great mix and on occasion require cleaning up after them.
Is it possible Irish when inserting the CPU bent one of the pins which would cause issues and while inspecting, be a great opportunity to remove any over enthusiastic use of thermal paste as you have suggested, remove, clean up and start from scratch so to speak?
( We are all assuming Irish did use, ( relatively new ), paste )?
I do wonder if it is a jumper issue?
As you write, the manual would be a good thing to have to hand.
Most modern CPUs don't have pins anymore: they have contact points that seat in the socket but aren't long enough to bend or get deformed out of contact. If the system didn't work at all, I would be troubleshooting for a short between mobo and case. But it's working for a while, so I'm inclined to go along with those suggesting overheating issues (which may indicate cooling/ventilation problems). Look for the mobo maker's forums and see if anybody else using the same board has reported the same or similar issues. If it's a defect, these things happen only seldom in ones and twos. If they happen at all, they'll usually happen more frequently. Unless you have a collection of alternate spare parts (swap out one at a time to try to isolate the fault/failing element), heading to the shop may be worth considering...
HTH,
--Ed--
OK then: received and understood. That's a particularly violent example of bent pins. Must be story in there somewhere...
LOL
--Ed--