cooling problems

[Nitrous]

My PC can run for hours doin nothing but run a game or a disk clean and the PC CPU temp shoots up from 41 decrease to 51 and then crashes then I get a siren like sound "ne nar ne nar" lol resulting in me haveing to unplug PC from the mains.

Anyway I have ITE Smartguardian for monitroing fan speed ect but I was wondering if this system might be better http://www.techwarelabs.com/download...on=file&id=144

Anyone willing to test it? or have it? oh and any help with keeping the heat down would be nice

[DayleJ]

can't help with the software prob...havn't got it
though my mate had a similar problem what he did was open his case up and just switched on a proper ordinary fan and it kept his computer cool pretty well until he fixed the problem. so just a suggestion for a temp fix-her-up.

[cHilli]

You'll prob have to buy a bigger fan? Peppage should be able to help..

[Peppage]

I've used mother board monitor and it is a neat program. Worked really good on my other computer which had a heat problem. Just in the summer it had a little trouble so I just removed the sides of it. To really fix it I think you're going to have to add more fans or if one is broken fix the ones you got... they are important.

The monitor might not always be right too.... depends on how it reads and what motherboard you have.

[Nitrous]

Ok cheers guys, I was messing around in the options yesterday in user control pannel under Windows XP and unticked the box that said auto shutdown on windows errors. Haven't had any erros that I know off but still unticked it to make sure. Then increased the amount of HD the comp may use as if it were Ram.

Then went into ITE Smartguardian options and increased the fan speeds a touch, seems to work perfectly now and no shutdowns. Did a disk clean up which it needed and it never went above 48 decrease CPU temp.... and no shut downs either. Ran MechWarrior 4 to make sure as well.

48 decrease? would ya say that is to still a little hot for a CPU seeing as the system temp is only reaching the hight 30's?

[eldiablo]

My CPU is never above 49 degrees and thats with doing some stressful jobs (video editting. video encoding, etc)! But my CPU is never below 45 degrees, well apart from the obvious when the computer is off and just starting up.