Kevin Mitchell

Thanks edward and zarti. It looks like the cause of this issue was created by a faulty 24 pin extension cable. I had another one on hand, replaced it and all seems to be working fine so far -fingers crossed-

Cpu temps are staying in the low to mid 40s. Two of the 16 cores have maxed at 54 degrees (Air cooling). Both Graphics cards are sitting at 82 degrees, which is somewhat normal as these cards have a tendency of running hot. Currently 35 of 240 frames of a high res pyro sim. Still running so far on Windows 7. Will report back with outcome.

Correct. I've tried several different hard drives as well. It's acting as if the cpu temps are too high and does a hard reboot. I have real temp up right now. I'll do another render and log the temperatures this time.