[snippage]
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.