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My Computer Is A Buttface [Power Cuts on 30 Minute Timer]

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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    since i have this stupid massive cpu cooling fan that i probably don't need

    will i need to reapply thermal paste when i dismantle the rig and put in the new motherboard or should it be fine with what's already on there?

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    TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    You'll have to clean off and reapply the thermal paste. Once the heatsink comes off the CPU (which will need to happen to get it off the motherboard) it's basically no good.

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    bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    if it still doesn't work, I dunno, flip some tables or something

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    cool deal

    thanks fellas

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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    new mobo installed

    passed the 30 minute mark

    woohoo

    stinks it's not really a solution but it solves the problem

    thanks for all the help peeps

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    mtsmts Dr. Robot King Registered User regular
    edited February 2016
    well it solved the problem of a borked mobo

    mts on
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    DarkewolfeDarkewolfe Registered User regular
    So, just because curiosity: what failing about the mobo would be able to cause a problem this precise?

    What is this I don't even.
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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    Darkewolfe wrote: »
    So, just because curiosity: what failing about the mobo would be able to cause a problem this precise?

    yeah, no idea

    i have seen a bunch of help threads around the internet with the same problem (and no actual solution) though

    it's weird

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    OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle let's keep it haimish for the peripatetic Registered User regular
    some bug is causing the internal clock to hit 30 minutes and power down

    logically, this would be something telling it to turn off at 12:30am since it resets the internal clock each time

    you may have been able to temporarily solve the problem by turning the BIOS clock to 31 minutes after wherever it resets and see if it stays on for 23 hours 29 minutes

    beep boop i'm a computer

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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    interesting

    if i had a spare cpu lying around i might test that out for funsies

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    TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    some bug is causing the internal clock to hit 30 minutes and power down

    logically, this would be something telling it to turn off at 12:30am since it resets the internal clock each time

    you may have been able to temporarily solve the problem by turning the BIOS clock to 31 minutes after wherever it resets and see if it stays on for 23 hours 29 minutes

    beep boop i'm a computer

    The internal clock shouldn't be resetting unless the battery is also dead.

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    bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    It's a base clock/bios error:

    https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=173484.0

    This guy had the same problem, same model (z87) of motherboard. Probably a bad revision to the BIOS software caused it.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    It's a base clock/bios error:

    https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=173484.0

    This guy had the same problem, same model (z87) of motherboard. Probably a bad revision to the BIOS software caused it.

    dang

    must be something they never fixed either since i had v1.1 when it started and when i updated it was v1.8 and as far as i could tell the most recent

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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    weird that it wouldn't have always happened though since i never updated the firmware at all before it started happening

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    bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    weird that it wouldn't have always happened though since i never updated the firmware at all before it started happening

    CMOS battery might be dead, or it could be just a manufacturing defect that got emphasized during a power outage (didn't shut pc down proplery).

    Who knows :-|

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    don't matter now!

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    RoeRoe Always to the East Registered User regular
    edited February 2016
    You might want to take the computer to a repair place before you spend a ton of money on new parts. Also, take back that PSU you bought and use that money if you can't figure it out.

    Edit: Beat to the punch.

    Roe on
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    ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    yeah, i didn't end up needing the new PSU but a modular one is sooo much better than the rat's nest of cables in my old one, so i'm okay with the upgrade

    other than that, the new mobo cost probably less than a repair would have, so i'm cool with it

    and i threw in an extra 16GB of RAM because why not

    probably didn't need to do that but :P

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