Re: Can a weak CMOS battery prevent detection of a drive

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>>>> Unfortunately, no matter what fiddling I could do, the Seagate 
>>>> Barracuda
>>>> continued to show unreliable symptoms. Read/write errors and failure to
>>>> detect at boot up. I ran Seagate tools that said the drive was slow, at 
>>>> one
>>>> time. I read a bad review of Barracuda. We decided it's a bad drive. I 
>>>> have
>>>> a one year warranty. I bought a 3 TB WD HDD and installed it. I am now 
>>>> doing
>>>> a backup. Then I will return the drive for a replacement Barracuda SSD. 
>>>> High
>>>>
>>>> SSD drives are very nice for instantaneous response, when they work.
>>>>
>>>> I plan to run some large programs for medical imaging. When it comes to
>>>> medical diagnostic imaging, one needs to do it oneself.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And you'll need a totally reliable drive for that.
>>>
>>>
>>> Speaking of medical imaging, when I was at my dentist....when they tried 
>>> to take an x-ray, their computer crashed. After a few attempts, I told 
>>> them to try a different USB port.
>>>
>>>
>>> All worked fine.
>>>
>>> I should have had them deduct my technical services from my bill.
>>
>> More than that Philo,
>>
>> Further back in this thread I thought I said I replaced the Seagate 
>> Barracuda with a good one. I also bought a 3TB WD HDD for backup. Prior 
>> to swapping out the bad Barracuda, I made a backup to the 3TB WD HDD. 
>> When I tried to restore, I ran into CPU overheating problems. Not every 
>> thermal grease is OK. Second try was "Kryonaut Ultra High Performance 
>> Thermal Grease" from thermal grizzly. Overheating problem was solved and 
>> restore is working.
>>
>> The CPU I have may be heat damaged. I checked, the best CPU for this 
>> Gigabyte main board is Intel Q9650. I had an Intel Q9650 CPU but it 
>> burned out. Temperature reached 126C. then screen went blank. I ordered 
>> another Q9650 CPU from a reputable supplier. I'll start again.
>>
>> Heat death of a CPU is slow. During slow death, Win10 is a bugger. If you 
>> see RunTimeBroker in Task Manager, you know you're in trouble. While it 
>> looks like a software problem it is more likely to be a cooling problem. 
>> I have a gaming case. I could install two more fans. I ordered 4 RAM heat 
>> spreaders. I'll do a before and after check with my IR Laser temperature 
>> gun.
>
> The screen went blank ?
>
> The CPU has THERMTRIP. If the temperature goes high enough (implying
> the heatsink fell off the CPU), the CPU sends THERMTRIP to the motherboard
> and THERMTRIP causes PS_ON# to be deasserted. That shuts off the power
> and removes +12V running VCore. The fans should go off.
>
> The CPU protects itself.
>
> I have an E8400, which is 1/2 of a 9650. It draws 11W at idle and
> 43W flat out. Your processor would be double that amount.
>
> Maybe your VCore is a bit too high ? The joint between CPU and heatsink
> would have to be absolutely dry, for it to get that hot. Even with
> a tiny heatsink with fan running, it should do better than that on
> cooling. For one thing, the CPU uses throttling to try to avoid
> a temperature that high. And that's one reason why it shouldn't
> be hitting 126C. It has one defense mechanism, that reduces CPU
> capability as a tradeoff for temp. To hit 126C, you really need an
> air gap between CPU and heatsink. Like if the push pins aren't fastened
> or something.
>
>    Paul

"Why look a gift horse in the mouth?" Currently a Quad Q8400 is plugged into 
Gigabyte MOBO. For convenience I connect using RDP. CPU use is 3%. 
Temperatures are 40C., 36C., 32C. and 36C. I think core#1 shows heat damage. 
Electromigration occurs when things get too hot.