Blue screen

[moonhope]

occasionaly I get blue screen and have to restart, checking temp indicates 174 degrees, is it a cooling problem? It happens about once every 2 weeks

[patio]

Yes it;s a cooling problem...suprised it even runs at those temps...

[Ajfer03]

Dang, you gonna cook an egg on that thing? Even my gaming PC overclocked doesn't reach those temps!

[Lisa_maree]

Hi

I take it the 174 degrees is Fahrenheit not Celsius.
Which would make it 78 degrees Celsius which is to hot for most processors. Chips like the AM2 socket AMD chips can run that hot.

Could you download speccy from  https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy/download
This will create a report of the computer and you then paste a link to the report here by selecting file, publish snapshot and copy the link to your post.

Also if you run Blue screen viewer from here https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

You can get more info on what is causing the blue screens. And copy the details here .