Overheating system

[Tyler Hall]

Greetings;

Your not overclocking it, are you?   But, they do have little fans that
circulate the air flow in a case.   I have seen them at Motherboards and
Upgrades (Stapley and The Freeway)  Call them before you go though, i'd feel
bad if they don't have them anymore.  But i'm sure you can find something
like that anywhere.   I don't know how productive they are, but I guess they
can't hurt.  Make sure your CPU Fan and Power supply fan is running nicely,
and blow out all the dust in the case by getting a can of air, at Walmart
for $4.99!

If that doesn't help, buy a new computer.

-Tyler

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Granroth" <kurt@granroth.org>
To: "PLUG Discuss" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 6:19 PM
Subject: Overheating system


> Does anybody here have any experience with overheated systems?  I am
> at a loss what might be wrong with mine :-(
>
> Now I know what is generating the heat in the first place.  I have a
> 900 Mhz Athlon (SocketA), two 7200 RPM ATA100 hard drives, a DVD drive
> and a CD-RW drive, two ethernet cards, my video card (cheap $20 one,
> though), a TV card, and a sound card.  I also keep it in an armoir to
> keep it out of sight.  Alas, that probably cuts down the airflow a
> bit.
>
> The problem I have is that my system locks up on a fairly regular
> basis whenever I do compiles or anything else CPU intensive.  I have
> narrowed the problem down to the heat.
>
> Now it *is* hard getting an accurate temperature reading of the CPU
> since my chipset (as99127f) isn't very well supported by lm_sensors.
> But with various reboots checking the BIOS readings, I think I have a
> good idea of the temperatures ranges.
>
> Basically, my motherboard hovers between 35C and 42C.  My CPU goes
> from 51C to 65C!  Since everything I've read says that anything over
> 45C is a bad thing, I'm quite worried.
>
> So I bought an Enermax 300W power supply since they are so well rated
> on overclocker sites.  It has an extra fan on it which supposedly
> cools down a case quite a bit.  I just got a Thermaltake Aircooler
> (Socket 462).  I also have a standard (no-name) intake case fan on the
> bottom front of the case.  I used to have a fan that attached to the
> case and blew directly on the CPU... but I couldn't tell any
> difference in temperature and it was loud.
>
> I'm going to buy one of those "Twin Turbo" case fans that supposedly
> push 80cfm and see what happens.
>
> But I'm still a bit worried.  Why does the CPU heat up so much and so
> fast?  With only the BIOS setup screen running, it will go from about
> 40C to 55C in less than a minute.  This seems very odd to me.  Could
> it be that the CPU is "broken" and pushes out a lot more heat than it
> should?  How could I tell?
>
> Anybody have an experience here?
> --
> Kurt Granroth            | http://www.granroth.org
> KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer
> granroth@kde.org         | granroth@suse.com
>             KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop
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