Overheating system

[Pete Buechler]

On Thursday 15 March 2001 06:19 pm, Kurt Granroth wrote:

> 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?

Is that a slot A Athlon? It MUST be used with a heat sink which straps onto 
the processor module. Twin fans are built in which blow air through the heat 
sink continually. Then you should have a case fan to pull the warmed air out 
of the case. The armoir is probably a BAD idea. The power supply fan is nice 
to keep the power supply from adding to the heat problems. But from your 
description of the run-up I suspect that you do not have a heat sink with 
fans attached to your processor module.

-Pete-