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10-04-2005, 03:03 PM
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Am I running too hot?
Howye, my PC has been acting strangely lately (shutting down whenever I hit esc in Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault) and I downloaded some programs to check my CPU temperature. It says it's at 96 degrees. Naturally, I'm a little worried. So I used the BIOS to check it and it says it's at 85 degrees. A site I found says that the recommended temperature for my CPU (AMD Athlon XP 3000+) is 80 degrees. Have I accidentally overclocked my machine or something? I don't think I have. I've included screenshots below:
http://www.compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~eoinoc99/startup.jpg http://www.compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~eoinoc99/temps.jpg http://www.compsoc.nuigalway.ie/~eoinoc99/settings.jpg Last edited by glc; 10-05-2005 at 10:59 AM. Reason: Images converted to links - excessive size |
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10-04-2005, 03:18 PM
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The BIOS shot of the temperature made me choke! Holy moly!
How long have you had the heatsink/fan on there? The thermal paste may have dried out (it happens...) |
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10-04-2005, 03:25 PM
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Man, that is HOT! I think there must been something wrong with the temperature monitor, there is no way you could still be working on a pc with a cpu that hot. If it was that hot your mobo would also be very close to it too.
I think you might just be best applying new thermal paste and maybe adding more case fans, but honestly I am not sure if you really have a problem or the thermometer is not calibrated right.
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10-04-2005, 03:39 PM
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I built this machine about a year ago and it's always kinda been problematic. I also ran SpeedFan - 30 minutes ago it said my CPU was 96 degrees. Now it says it's 55. There has to be something wrong...
And as was said, I would have never expected it to even run if it were this hot. Incidentally, this is my CPU fan: https://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=117894 |
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10-04-2005, 03:49 PM
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Carefully touch the metal part of the heatsink (keep your finger away from the fan!!). If it's cold, you have a problem of poor contact. If it's scalding hot, something's weird.
Ummm... might want to check your PSU rails as well. What PSU do you have? |
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10-04-2005, 04:00 PM
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Don't have a screwdriver with me at college so can't do that right now. What I might do is mention it to the hardware guys at the Computer Society and see if they can help out.
My PSU came with the case (I know, I know) so it's kinda cheap. |
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10-04-2005, 04:56 PM
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Oh jeez! That's WAY to hot. But if you said in SpeedFan the temperature suddenly dropped, it's possible the monitoring chip is going funky. Your computer shut have shut down ages before you hit 96 degrees which is in the danger area. Look around in BIOS, there's probably an auto-shutdown option that allows you to set the temperature at which the motherboard will sound an alarm and shut down. Mine is set at 74C. If yours is set to something lower than 96C, I'm thinking something is going funky with the motherboard, for some reason it is reporting the wrong temps.
Like I said if you said the temps dropped to 55C, it's probably the motherboard. A CPU running that hot if the heatsink wasn't installed properly, wouldn't drasticallly drop 40C, it should stay hot.
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10-04-2005, 05:08 PM
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OK, crisis analysis mode. Let's assume that my temperature probe is correct and that my CPU is running at 96 degrees. What can I do?
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10-04-2005, 05:08 PM
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I dunno... those chips are pretty resiliant... my friend ran his at 85 degrees C for about a month and all he complained about was "it crashes in games"
 You can stop using it for a start until you make sure the heatsink is making contact! After that, replace the grease... your heatsink and fan combo isn't bad, so it will just be a contact issue (if your monitoring chip is to be believed). Last edited by Snod Blatter; 10-04-2005 at 05:10 PM. |
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10-04-2005, 05:23 PM
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I have had that problem before i would check your heat/sink chassis check if it's on straight because if its not it can cause shutdowns and lockups.
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10-04-2005, 05:35 PM
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I've traced the shutdown to a bug in Medal Of Honor. I just opened it up there, the heatsink is hot, not very hot, but hot all the same. When I plugged it back in and turned it on, the fans came on but it wouldn't boot. I waited a minute and tried again and it worked.
I went into the BIOS and saw it running at 66 degrees (+- 3 degrees) and left it for 10 minutes. No change in temp. Then I loaded Windows and checked with SpeedFan and it was back up to 93. How could it have jumped that far that fast? |
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10-04-2005, 05:36 PM
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Mine jumps no more than 4-5C loading xp pro.
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10-04-2005, 05:39 PM
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Mine will actually drop 5C, just goes to show the innaccuracy of software readings in the first place.
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10-04-2005, 05:54 PM
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I did notice that there was very little compound left so maybe that's causing the problem. I'm gonna pick some up very soon and see does that alleviate the problem.
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10-04-2005, 06:10 PM
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10-04-2005, 06:27 PM
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Unless of course something malfunctioned on the motherboard.
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10-04-2005, 06:47 PM
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10-05-2005, 10:58 AM
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Turn off the Q-Fan control.
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10-05-2005, 11:07 AM
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What difference will that make? I don't even think I have a "Q-Fan". The only fans are the CPU fan and the one in the PSU.
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