No I have not. Can you even do that with AMD chips? They don't exactly float in the socket like intel chips.
if its not a bga cpu socket then yes.
as far as i can remember all amd boards are pga sockets. the motherboard is AM3+ so no reason it shouldnt work
Yeah they're PGA but short of taking out the chip and putting it back in I figured reseating wasn't really a thing. LGA sockets the chip can move around but with PGA that's not really a thing so I figured couldn't really do it. Alright then. I guess I'll give it a shot.
not as much but cant hurt
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Like others, my money says that the PSU is going out. Order a cheap one if you have to for now.
I would advise against this because if the psu fails there is a chance of it taking out something like a cpu, gpu, mobo, etc
Honestly my 2 cents is it's the mobo only because of the CPU fan error that I get. I would think that the PSU wouldn't cause that however given that this is the second mobo I've had die on me in under 2 years I'm wondering if the PSU is killing my boards. Either that or I'm just super unlucky.
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Before you order anything new, I suggest you to replace your water cooling setup with a simple first-party Intel CPU cooler. I feel as though your motherboard is the issue (12V fan header might have malfunctioned and shorted). By plugging in a stock Intel CPU cooler, you'll find out very quick and easily whether it is the pump or CPU Fan. It definetly WILL NOT be the power supply, because normally, if a PSU is/was going bad, it would either not POST, the system would stay on for a limited amount of time, or under certain loads, would just completely cut out. From what I've read, it only seems as though your system does not detect a CPU fan.
I have an AMD CPU. Specifically an FX-9590 H20 edition. So the AIO liquid cooler I'm using is actually the stock cooler. That being said I don't actually own a cooler for aside from my AIO. Also the system is only on for a limited period of time. It will often POST but then power down. Other times it won't even POST before powering down.
I've had 2 PSUs die in older systems. The first started having random issues booting which would happen more and more frequently until it wouldn't boot up at all. No crashing If it booted up all the way (that I can remember). I recognized the symptoms on the second one and replaced the PSU before it got too bad.
Haven't had issues on the last couple builds because I bought better PSUs.
Hopefully I didn't just jinx myself.
That's exactly the issue I'm having. If it boots all the way no problem but if it doesn't then it'll often only stay on for 5-10 seconds.
Ok time for an update on this whole situation. I came to the conclusion it was the board so I RMAed it. Asus sent the board back to me, I put it in my system and got the same issue. I called them and asked them for what exactly they did with the board and they told me that they ran the board for 6 hours straight with no issues, they also told me to try a different CPU. I went and tested an FX-8320 in my board and it still did it so I came to the conclusion that it was the PSU. I decided to test a different PSU with the FX-8320 in my board and yet again it still happened. Just to summarize the issue happens with two different CPUs one of which is known to be good, two different PSUs one of which is known to be good, and happens with or without a graphics card and with or without RAM. Which brings me back to the board being bad. The only thing I have not tried is disconnecting all the sata connections, front panel headers, and fan headers. Is it possible that one of those connections is causing the problem? I plan on testing tomorrow but I just wanted to get some opinions.
Here's something else to look at: https://youtu.be/HC0u2fy0Poo?t=913
If I understand this correctly, it looks like the fans are plugged into the pump and the pump is connected to a CPU FAN header. That means one fan header is providing power to the pump and 2 fans which seems a bit excessive. I've used 2 different Corsair coolers and both have the pump connected separately.
If the fan leads are long enough try plugging them into CPU FAN1 & 2 and put the pump somewhere else, if not try unplugging one of the fans and see if that helps.
You could also get a Y adapter and use both CPU FAN headers to power the one plug.
Power supply.
Every. Fucking. Time.
I've already tested a PSU I know is good and the problem still occurs.
I have the pump in the CPU_FAN header and then 2 120mm fans in a push pull configuration on my radiator connected to the CPU_OPT header using a y splitter.
I had an EVGA power supply do this shit to me. They sent out a replacement, and it failed within an hour. They swore it was tested good, etc.
I go out and buy a Corsair power supply, and lo and behold, the mutherfucker works. Pulling 17 days uptime on the current cycle. Needless to say, the EVGA power supply wasn't good, and I sent both the replacement back, and the original one for a refund.
When I say I know the power supply is good I mean I know it's good. It's been running 24/7 in my NAS for the past year or so with no problems. It's in there right now.
Your testing method is wrong. A NAS will never ramp up CPU usage. It's the current delivery on the 12v that causes computers to spontaneously reboot or turn off. Your power supply might be enough for your NAS, but not for the computer you are having problems with.
Go get a power supply from a big box store (like best buy or Frys) where you can return it. Use that to test. Your dusty old power supply from the NAS is a bad test method.