Aorus X7-DTv7 Overheating and shutting off after 2 years.

I was wondering if anyone else had encountered this, I purchased an X7 DT-V7 around October 2017 and put Conductonaut on the GPU and CPU, and Kryonaut on the memory and VRMS that didn't have thermal pads, and Fujipoly Extreme for the Memory/VRMs that used pads. Recently though it's been getting much hotter and at one point while playing The Outer Worlds I smelt an Acrid smell. Just recently I was playing SW:TOR and in the middle of the game it just cut off and rebooted. I went through event viewer and see nothing but informational messages leading up to the Critical Kernel-Power Event. There was 2 windows updates that started about an hour prior.



Barring any software issues. Do you think it could be the Conductonaut drying out or needing to be replaced?



I really don't have any overclocking profiles, I played with OC when I was trying to get a High 3dmark score about 18 months ago but since then I just have 2 Undervolt profiles for the CPU/GPU if I'm at the airport and just doing video browsing or web browsing etc.



After running a log with XTU & Afterburner to see what the max temp I Ran a game for about 30 or so minutes. The temp for the CPU peaked at 91c but generally was 67-78c as for the GPU the Max I saw it get to was 82c. If I remember some of the old threads that should still be much better than stock, correct?. The fan is set to custom and 65%

 

Repasted and killed my laptop. Fml.

 

Have you tried to clean everything back up? You can also take pictures before you do, it may give us an idea of what is going on.

 

Interesting update. I removed the M.2 Drives and all Ram but one of the original 8GB sticks. and to my surprise it Posted! Trying to get it to post with 2 sticks now But it doesn't seem like it's going to. I was removing everything to take to a PC Repair place for a Act of god letter to get the remaining insurance value of the laptop when it booted. Should I hold on to it with the 1 stick until it dies? Try to sell it listing the history of the laptop and hope for $8-900? Something in between? Super surprised as I thought it was toast.

I know, terrible place to be working on a PC without a Static mat or anything but I thought it was dead!

Edit: Updated Bios to see if it'd make a difference appears to be a bad stick of ram when doing a Mem test on one of the sticks, but even when swapping to try and use an 8GB stick + 16 GB known good sticks of the same speed it doesn't work. I may take my work laptop home tomorrow and try swapping the sticks into it.

Looks like it's working though. only 1 stick @ 16GB. Repasting lowered temps about 12c it seems. Last time temps were hitting 71-73c in XTU now they seem capped at 60-62c. I guess maybe some of the Liquid Metal Galvanized or dried?

 

Went ahead and listed it on Craigslist, if it sells it sells. If it doesn't I'll keep it until it dies I guess

 

Well even though noone is responding at all. I found out why the 2nd Ram slot died. Looks like a few pins were obfuscated by kryonaut. Bot sure how it got there. Been working on it with a Q-Tip. Luckily not conductive.

 

Wipe off all old LM and apply new LM! please follow these tips below as well! I used to own a Aorus X7 V7, i’d consider 80% or higher on the fan profile too. when cleaning LM off it’ll stain the heatsink which is fine, you can leave that. just make sure the die is clean.

You cannot use Kryonaut on components that would usually need a thermal pad. It’ll harden in to a rock and will not cool well at all as it practically turns in to powder.. You need to clean that off and use K5 Pro which is a liquid thermal pad pretty much. You can get 20 grams for $7.99.

Also you need to make sure your heatsink contacts the die properly if you are using liquid metal. And, you must use Kapton tape around the dies in order to protect against liquid metal leaking.

“Liquid metal can provide great temps at first when you apply it”

^ after running the system a while or just 2-3 days, temperatures will become hotter. The LM will soak in to the components and more LM will need to be applied until equilibrium is reached!



I have probably applied LM to my 8086K and GTX1080, 10+ times. Having good contact is very important.

If your system is shutting off, something could be overheating.

Take the system apart again, and apply K5 pro to all area that do NOT have thermal pads. Make sure there’s no gap between the dies and heatsink for proper LM application. If there is a gap, I’d recommend going back to standard Kryonaut thermal gel. Or using a 0.5mm shim with LM.