PC suddenly powering down

[jerrin_ss5]

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1. Yes! you should remove your Processor and re-apply the thermal paste. Even if the temp shown by BIOS seems to be ok.

2. After looking at your above post, I will suggest you to remove your graphics card and use the onboard vga and see if the problem persist or not.

3. Sometimes Graphics Cards tends to cause such shutdown problems.

Please revert back.

1. ok i removed my processor cleaned my heatsink reapplied the the thermal paste and seated it right back

2. tried to boot without the graphic card.

both gave the same output ie powering down after some time

@topgear - i am not finding any settings to change the CPU vcore
mine is an award bios so please help out

 

[coderunknown]

it should be under advanced bios features. if you are unable to find, open advanced bios options & click a pic. upload to some image hosting site & give the link here.

 

[jerrin_ss5]

it should be under advanced bios features. if you are unable to find, open advanced bios options & click a pic. upload to some image hosting site & give the link here.

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[topgear]

it's not there ( on the posted screenshot ) - can you tell what are the options you see when you enter bios screen ? - generally Award Bios offers OC support with latest mobos - so there's a strong chance that your mobo also has options for OC and changing voltgae values.

 

[jerrin_ss5]

there's a separate option for voltage and frequency control but under that i could'nt find vcore option !
is it possible that bios could have some locked option?

 

[d6bmg]

is it possible that bios could have some locked option?

No. No bios have any locked option(s).

 

[coderunknown]

there's a separate option for voltage and frequency control but under that i could'nt find vcore option !
is it possible that bios could have some locked option?

maybe the bios is a bit stripped down. so you maybe able to monitor the Vcore but can't change it.

ok, try updating BIOS (unlikely, updated bios will add vcore control) or try AMD Overdrive if your motherboard supports.

BTW your motherboard supports cool & quite? if yes, disable it.

 

[topgear]

there's a separate option for voltage and frequency control but under that i could'nt find vcore option !
is it possible that bios could have some locked option?

what are the options you get Under voltage Control ??

 

[jagdish]

I will suggest you 2 things hope it will solve your problem.
1)remove your ram clean it with a cloth and then reinsert it.
2)see if your processor fan is working,if working remove heat sink apply thermal paste and put it.

 

[d6bmg]

I will suggest you 2 things hope it will solve your problem.
1)remove your ram clean it with a cloth and then reinsert it.
2)see if your processor fan is working,if working remove heat sink apply thermal paste and put it.

dude, see the pictures that he posted here. He don't have any problem with the temperature (i.e. overheating)

 

[jerrin_ss5]

hey thanks guys especially @topgear and @sam for helping with my problem
sorry for the delayed response as i had got frustrated
anyways my problem seems to be solved and here's how i tackled it
i ran my PC for two days straight with a few breaks of 4-5 hours in between and then gave an entire day rest
now its working properly even though the exact cause of the problem is unknown !!

 

[d6bmg]

hey thanks guys especially @topgear and @sam for helping with my problem
sorry for the delayed response as i had got frustrated
anyways my problem seems to be solved and here's how i tackled it
i ran my PC for two days straight with a few breaks of 4-5 hours in between and then gave an entire day rest
now its working properly even though the exact cause of the problem is unknown !!

Then because of the bolded quote, it will be better for you, if the problem do not return once again.

 

[coderunknown]

nice to know problem is fixed. so what is the current vcore? also i feel the problem mayn't be related to low processor voltage.

 

[topgear]

yep, it would be better if Op can know what exactly have caused this - I think humidity caused all this and that's why it automatically got fixed after using the pc for a longer time period

 

[jerrin_ss5]

@d6bmg - hope the problem doesn't return anyways thanks for the help
@sam - vcore still the same about 1v
@topgear - hopefully the problem was due to moisture and hope it doesn't return
Thanks everyone!!!!

 

[manishji]

@jerrin did you find a solution to your problem yet? I went through this entire post because my Toshiba Satellite is having similar shutdown problem and it takes multiple attempts to reboot and when it finally does then it works like a charm. I took it to a technician and he suspected the air vents and did a cleaning and and applied fresh thermal paste. did not solve the problem.
Feel like throwing away this junk