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- Jun 15, 2011
Hey, I just finished putting together my new desktop. Its the first one I built from scratch, so I'm hoping I just did something stupid.... when I first booted it, I got a beep code for hardware failure and a message onscreen saying that the CPU (an i7-2600k) is too hot. Before I shut it down, I quickly checked the BIOS and it said the CPU was running at 97 degrees Celsius. I'm using the generic heatsink/ fan, but I did put Arctic Alumina thermal compound between the CPU/ heatsink as per the directions on their website. There is a few things that didn't go very well during the install that makes me think it might be a physical problem. First, when I was clamping the processor to the mobo (Asus P8Z68-V pro), the metal holder seemed to push against the processor and make a grinding noise. I looked and other people have had the issue and say you just need to power through it, but I still feel like something got screwed up there. Also, when I was removing the pre attached thermal stuff from the heatsink, I by mistake scratched it a bit. Not much, and I had thought it wouldn't make a difference because I'm not overclocking, but it looks like it did. I honestly have no idea what to do from here to try to troubleshoot and fix this.... any ideas?
Also, here's the full parts list in case it helps:
Rosewill Cruiser case (airflow *seems* to be ok, all the fans are running, and none of the cables are over or touching the processor)
ASUS P8Z68-V PRO mobo
EVGA Nvidia GTX 560 ti
hec XP1080 1080W power supply
Intel Core i7-2600K
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB DDR3 RAM
Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB HDD (Yes, I know its a laptop hard drive, but I decided to try it.)
Thanks!
Also, here's the full parts list in case it helps:
Rosewill Cruiser case (airflow *seems* to be ok, all the fans are running, and none of the cables are over or touching the processor)
ASUS P8Z68-V PRO mobo
EVGA Nvidia GTX 560 ti
hec XP1080 1080W power supply
Intel Core i7-2600K
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB DDR3 RAM
Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB HDD (Yes, I know its a laptop hard drive, but I decided to try it.)
Thanks!