Temperature problem.

Corpfox

Corpfox

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I was curious with, SLNT_FIR thread, that I wanted to find out if I had a problem like that.

Turns out I do, not relative to the thread though.

Recently, I played Heroes V for about 3 hours, then finished and turn off the PC. I went to turn the PC on, my fan was going incredible loud and fast, about the sound of a Vacuum cleaner. :eek:

Checked the back of my PC where the fan is, it's hot and currently, it still is.
I don't see any dust or anything blocking the fan. The fan of my PC gets hot when I use it for almost 3 hours, after that, its gets hotter and sometimes when I play games, it goes incredible slow.

One time, when I played for a long time, my video card temperature guage went over 100'C.

How can I check my actual CPU temperature and how can I stop it from overheating?

This is the first time its happen since I brought the PC.

If I had to guess my fans temperature now, I'd say about a 3 on the stove top or almost the heat of a car hood when its used.

After all, touch metal when its hot, its hot!


Check my BIOS, this is what it says:

HardWare Monitor

CPU Fan System: 2860 RPM (and up)
System Fan System: 0 RPM

CPU Temperature

67'C/152'F

Using a Athlon 2800+ XP, can't overclock since my cpu is a Socket A! My Graphics card not is overclocked, current temperature; 57'C and rising since my PC is still hot. The outer case of the PC is warm.
 
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Does your case have any fans in it? It sounds like you have some pretty inadequate cooling. You might want to take the side of the case off so your components can get some air before they fry. Until you find the problem, don't be afraid to put a floor fan next to your case. I've had to do this before to keep my system cool due to a poorly designed case.
 
I have known others to do this too when they need to push more air through their PC.

What is the temperature in the room where you regularly use the computer?

HCS will probably be able to recommend a program that will allow you to monitor it without going into the BIOS too
 
Install/run speedfan4.28
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I did a search on yahoo yesterday, I installed and runned Speedfan 4.28.

I don't know how to work it, but it does tell me my temperature on my cpu, hard drive, etc. Very nice.

When my cpu went very hot yesterday, it did say my Temp 2 was 67'C and my Fan 2 was about 2,000 RPM. Right now, my Temp 2 is 38'C and my Fan 2 is about 4,220 RPM. Quite a dramatic difference, which looks very bad for me. Also did say it got very hot when I used the PC for almost 1 hour (51 mins).

Until you find the problem, don't be afraid to put a floor fan next to your case. I've had to do this before to keep my system cool due to a poorly designed case.
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Yeah, I had to do that when it got too hot...

What is the temperature in the room where you regularly use the computer?
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Don't know the exact number since I've been using the PC for almost 3 years in the same room (My bedroom). My room is mild, not too hot and too cold, though summer is coming along and it has been very hot before. When it does get hot, my room does get musty and dry.

If the case is warm you are having airflow problems. Opent he case up and check for dust.
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I'll check now, since it is warming up. :(


Ok, I check it throughly, my graphic card, motherboard, and voltage fans are hot, and the silver/gray tower pointy things are very hot.

http://motherboards.bizrate.com/motherboards/pid302240084/compareprices.html

You see where orange connector is, if you look at the center of the motherboard, are silver/gray tower pointy things, thats what gets very hot on my cpu. Actually, it is my motherboard! :eek:
 
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You need to add some case fans. It sounds like there is no airflow at all over your components. If your case can't hold a fan in the front and the back, you may need a different case. Cheap cases are usually poorly designed especially in the case of cooling.

Keep that floor fan blowing on it so you don't fry anything until you get more cooling. You might also want to try going into the bios and turning off the automatic cpu fan control so that it blows at top speed constantly. It'll be louder but it'll help keep your CPU cooler.
 
you may need a different case. Cheap cases are usually poorly designed especially in the case of cooling.
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It is not a custom-built pc. I think the case is fine, most likely, my PC is dying of old age. When I have the time, I'll buy a cooling fan for my PC. If it doesn't work much, I'll go to a PC repair store and asked them what is the problem Or skip buying the fan and go there immediately.

Though, the curious thing, it doesn't go higher than 70'C. 67'C is highest I saw so far. Other that the hot heat coming from my voltage fan is the slowness of playing games, even Starcraft. :mad:

Looking though, SpeedFan, my voltage guages is normal. My fan guages drops when it gets hot and rises when it gets cool. My temp guages seems to be the biggest concern, especially Temp 2. It is the only one thats making my PC hot, nothing else, so, what is Temp 2?
 
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i was talking to the IT guy at work and he said as long as it doesn't go over 60C you're good. That goes for basically everything. HD, CPU. Whatever.
 
When my CPU Usage goes 100% but nothing is running, what does that mean?

I runned a game, first time didn't work, second time very slow, exited then shows I'm using 100%.

As for the temperature, my Temp 2 is 50'C and won't go down!

Fan is going faster than normal, but I didn't anything remotely relative to boasting my fan's speed. :mad:

Just for the annoying heat, it causing problems with my computer. My Cd-roms are not working properly, my cpu is twice as slow as it regularily is, my hard-drive is performing 99%.

So, what does that all really mean? My PC getting old? Or My fans do have problems, which had to occur this month. Or something on my cpu is short-out or fried.

ARGH! Grrrrrr.....:mad:

WHat is Temp 2 and if so, where is it located and that does it do on the PC/CPU!?



 
What power supply are you using?
Are you using a cheap power supply?
What wattage is the power supply?

If your using a cheapish power supply then it might be causing
trouble for you corpfox. Try getting a good quality power supply
from Antec and see what happens but get the right wattage for
your computer parts. I read somewhere that the Amps on the
power supply should be 18a or above but one of the 12v rails on my
power supply is 17a.

My power supply is a Antec smartpower 500
My dual 12 volt rails are 17a/19a
 
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What power supply are you using?
Are you using a cheap power supply?
What wattage is the power supply?
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From what I am looking at:

Bestec
Model: ATX:250-12Z Rev: D.
INput: 100-127V-6A, 200-240V-3A, 50/60Hz
BST ATX-250-12Z D
Output: +12V/14A, -12V/0.8A
250W MAX. +5V/25A, +5VSB/2A peak 2.5A
+3.3V/18A

MADE IN CHINA


Sorry, I was leaning on the floor with my keyboard, typing all that down since I'm using it wireless. :D

http://www.beachcomputers.com/atx-250-12z.htm

Looks like to me, the problem is my CPU is very, very old. 0_0
 
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