Question chipset overheats?

daggs1

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Greetings,

I have an ASUS H110M-A M2 board with a G4560 within an Antec VSK2000U3 which I use as a server that runs among things two vm, one is my router and the other is a tvheadend server.
the os is Debian 9.6, the hypervisor is libvirt + kvm, in addition, there are two 3.5 hdds inside

I have a wireless usb adapter configured as path-trough to the router vm and a dtv-t2 usb adapter configured as path-trough to the tvheadend vm.
I have the board over a year now, working without any issues.
but in the last 2-3 months, the wireless adapter started to cause issues in the router vm, spitting vendor errors to the system logs. the dtv-t2 usb is doing the same within the tvheadend vm.
I've ruled out os issue as the router wasn't changed since the install.
libvirt version change is still debatable as I had to downgrade the version because the newer version caused the usbs to be unusable but it still happens in the original version too.
the os is installed on a sandisk ultra fit and from the start I was unable to use it when it was connected to the usb3 jack because the jack got over heated to the point it caused the ultra fit to stop working.
I've ran the system with the case opened and tried to see if I can touch various parts and see if they overhead, the only part which was extremely hot (had to remove my finger not to get burned) was the chipset cooling (the goldish thing with the ASUS writing seen here: https://www.newegg.com/global/il-en/p/N82E16813132854).

can this cause my issues?
 

daggs1

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Mar 9, 2018
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you are correct, they surround the same issue but from different aspects as I didn't got to open the case at that stage.
in addition, I was too lazy to enter the topic and only looked at the title, I apologize for that.

thanks for the heads up.