New member so I am not sure I am posting in the right place. I have an Acer Aspire AM5200-E5510A AMD PHENOM x 3, 2.1GHz with 8 gigs ram, and Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 video card. The problem with the computer is that it keeps shutting down hard, I mean hard. No warning, the hardware simply shuts down, without even the comforting blue screen of death. I was thinking my power supply was dying so I have just popped in a new Roswell, Newegg house brand 650 watt power supply, well 2 hours in and the hardware hard quits. I am now thinking it could be a motherboard issue, I do know there are heat issues. Using speed fan these are the readings, god knows where each fan belongs... Fan 1: 14 rpm GPU 100 F ok Fan 2: 3139 rpm Temp1 171 F >> hot Fan 3: 0 rpm Temp2 117 F ok Fan 1: 4500 rpm Temp 3 129 f >> hot Fan 2 1058 rpm hd0 115 f ok Fan 3 0 rpm Temp 1 167 f >> hot Fan 4 0 rpm Temp Core 155 >> 154 f >> hot I am not sure if speed fan is reporting properly but I strongly feel there is a serious heat issue, can someone give feedback and solutions. Dave
Remove the side cover and start computer and look to see if the fan over the CPU is spinning ? Also check the rear fan If there is one...It is getting too hot some how..
