I have an AMD FX 4100 CPU with the stock fan on a Sabertooth 990FX mobo. My PC never really crashed before, but recently it has just been crashing randomly, usually during games, and always during burning DVDs in Nero. I figured it was CPU intensive processes that kept causing the issues, so I downloaded HWMonitor. It says the CPU temp is idling around 50 C and during burning videos, it jumps to 90
I tried shutting everything down, reapplying the thermal paste, and checking if everything worked, but it appears to have not helped at all. I think it MAY be the voltage to the cpu, but do not know the standard voltage it should be running at.
My question is : what could cause such overheating? It never displayed any symptoms prior to recently, though I did not check the temps prior, so maybe it was overheating, I just did not know… but I USED to be able to burn DVDs without crashes, now it crashes every single attempt.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
