So I've posted this before but I finally have additional means to help solve.

I have a computer I use as a server, I built it.

It ran for ~1.5-2 months 24/7 no issues.

One day I woke up to find it off, now if I turn it on it stays on for maybe 3 minutes (enough to log into windows) then shuts off, power light will flicker and then it will remain off.

Per a user on this site I previously re applied thermal compound twice.

I received a new psu today in the mail and will be trying that later but I don't believe that to be the issue.

Any suggestions?

can u monitor temps?

Yeah I thought about getting a program and opening it as soon as windows boots and watching it up until power off.

I will do this



E:I also defaulted bios previously

This post was edited by WhoBut_WBMason on Apr 29 2017 01:37pm

Does sound like a temp issue.

Yes I was told temp or voltage

i had this issue with the northbridge overheating on an old am3 board, put some fresh paste on it and that seemed to fix it.

Probably it's something tertiary like that maybe your VRM's overheating, cpu's generally don't just straight power off nowadays if they start overheating they usually just throttle immensely.

doubt it's your nb though, ever since memory controllers became integrated they usually dont even have heatsinks

This post was edited by DCSS on Apr 29 2017 02:09pm

what?

the Northbridge used to house the memory controller on older motherboards, it communicated with the CPU via the FSB. Nowadays these controllers are typically integrated onto the cpu. These hit the consumer market right around Nehalem (2009) IIRC. Prior to that the nb was subject to overheating and causing throttling/shutdowns as a result but I haven't heard of a case like that ever since IMC's. Could be wrong about them not having heatsinks but it wouldn't surprise me if it were the case for some motherboards, Phases on non-overclocking boards stopped having heatsinks around the time the VRM's were integrated onto the CPU as well.

This post was edited by DCSS on Apr 29 2017 03:34pm

Lol

There's always some sort of heatsink on the NB.