Windows 10: Is my cooler dying or my cpu bad? Or something with windows going on?

So I bought a prebuild Skytech pc a few months ago, its worked great. However the few days when I was playing V rising, my game froze and crashed to desktop no problem but then my windows was acting weird my mic stop working, it was lagging, my temps were fine but it was weird, I restarted and all was well. A few days later while playing Hell divers 2, my game started to stutter randomly, my CPU temps shot up from 65 to about 81, which worried me since 89 is the max temp for this CPU, then the game froze. I tried AltF4 it did not close, i tried tabbing out, but the game was still just frozen o

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Need Help with "Ejectable" CPU Cooler

Thanks a lot to both of your responses and the swiftness of your answers! I really appreciate it.

I can't seem to figure out how to @ mention users on here, so I hope that the two of you are notified of my reply.

@Greg Carmack

Unfortunately, the link that you provided did not resolve my issue, as the cooler does not appear as a drive in File Explorer or Disk Management.

@abhishek Das

I don't have another CPU cooler to test. The CPU cooler is not showing as a storage device in Device Manager. It's showing as one of the USB devices. Do you suggest that I flash the motherboard in the BIOS? This is out of the question. There are no pending
updates. I just checked manually.

 

BSOD (more frequent) after changing CPU cooler

Hello all,

I'm in desperate for help, as I've been getting a variety of BSOD. Please help!

This computer is less than 1 yr old. 2 weekends ago I changed out my CPU Cooler to a Noctua cooler. It is worth noting that the process wasn't smooth, and I got thermal paste on the side of the chip and
a tiny speck on the bottom barely touching a pin (I know, stupid of me). I thoroughly cleaned it, put it back in, then applied the cooler. I applied it backwards the first time and needed to rotate it to correctly attach it to the CPU. I had BSOD's before
this, not not nearly as frequently.

After that point, I started getting BSOD at least once every session. They almost always happened:

1. Within 5 minutes of waking it up/turning on
2. While playing a game

The three different types I've gotten are:

1. KERNEL_AUTO_BOOST_LOCK_ACQUISITION_WITH_RAISED_IRQL
2. KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
3. KERNEL_AUTO_bOOST_INVALID_LOCK_RELEASE

Specs are:

• Ryzen 5 3600
• Gigabyte x570 Aorus Elite
• G.Skill 16 GB DDR4-3200
• Samsung 970 Evo 500gb
• GTX 1060 3gb
• Seasonic FOCUS Plus Gold 650 W 80+ Gold

Additionally, I am unable to update to the newest Windows 10 (2020-04 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems (KB4549951)).
When I try to update it gets to 100% and says Error 0x800f0831. I don't know
if this happened before or after the main problem.

Now from what I've gathered, there are a few possible explanations for this:

• I need to remount the CPU cooler. I could have applied it incorrectly and the CPU could be overheating. This explains crashing while playing games, but I don't think this explains it crashing when I first wake it up / turn it on. Easiest solution, i'd even
  put back on the original cooler to see if that helps.
• The PSU could be causing this. That explains the turn on/wake up crashes, and maybe the game crashes too. However this is a highly rated PSU that is also brand new. Could it be broken?

Programs I've downloaded and can use however necessary:

• Speccy
• WhoCrashed
• SFC /SCANNOW
  • Diagnostic tool not program
• OCCT

I'm willing to provide any info anyone needs to help me here, as I'm really out of my league. Thank you for the help!

 

CPU cooler ?

The White Whale is now up and running - thanks to all the good info I got here.
I synced all the cores, as was suggested here, according to Task Manager - the CPU is running a 4.69 GHz - not bad.
I intend to leave all alone for awhile, finish software install and updates.
Let me just say that this case is BIG!

I set it up with the laptop showing the online mobo manual - literally by the numbers - following instructions is a wonderful thing

Again, thanks for all the good info