Hi Guys,

had a weird problem last night, was running nero recode to rip some dvd's and the computer would keep turning off.

Did some research and found the cause was the cpu was overheating, ran a cpu temp monitor and sure enough the temps were rising to 90c and the computer would shutdown.

the cpu is AMD fx-4100 quad core with no overclocking. there is a case fan and standard CPU cooling fan which appear to be running correctly. I touched the heatsink and it sure was getting very hot as the cpu climbed.

I have never had the problem with any other applications (the system was built for flight sim's which are fairly intensive)

The strange thing ism I dont hear the cpu fan speed up, I would of expected when a certain temperature was exceeded the fan would spin up faster, I went all through the bios and all the smart fan controls are enabled, I even updated the bios to the latest version.

Should I look at installing fan control sdoftware perhaps? would prefer not.. but can't see what the problem is. I also believe the stock cpu cooler should be enough to keep it cool especially since its not clocked.