My CPU has developed a weird problem? advice please?

Jim

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Well, if where you live is as HOT as where I am living, I have no doubt your computer is gasping a litte bit.

My suggestion to you, is to open that case up and vacuum the dust and dirt out of it. Clean all the fins on all the case fans and the CPU fan. you can do this with a 50/50 rubbing alcohol solution and Q-TIPS. Dip the Q-TIPS in the solution, and shake it good and then remove the grime, dust and dirt from the fins of the fans and the heat sink. You may be surprised how much dust can clog those cooing fins on the CPU heatsink.

Make sure you are unplugged from the wall socket, you have grounded yourself by touching the side of the unpainted metal chassis and you push the ON button for a few seconds (after unplugging, of course), which discharges latent electricity in the capacitors.

During the summer months, I open one side of my case and keep it off. I use a small desk fan with a clip on one side and I clip it to the chassis of the computer and blow air directly into the CPU and the video card.

I think you will see a drop to where you normally are doing this.

If this doesn't reduce it enough, you might want to consider buying a better CPU/HEATSINK assembly and installing it. You have to use thermal paste if you do that, however.

The only other thing I can think of is, keeping the computer in an air conditioned room during summer hot weather.
 
hi i have a Pentium D 820 CPU [ i adore this tough workhorse and am loathe to exchange it and buy another ]
from 2007 Feb to day before yesterday i was using -
Asus P5PEVM motherboard [ Intel 865 chipset ]
1 GB DDR1 400 RAM
80 GB PATA Hard Disk
NVidia 6200 256 MB Graphics Card [ i do not game at all . the graphics card is only there to make my PC complete ]
from day before yesterday my config is
[ same CPU ]
Intel DG 31 Motherboard [ Intel G 31 chipset ]
4 GB DDR2 RAM
250 GB SATA + 80 GB PATA Hard Disk
NVidia 9400 GT 1 GB Graphics Card .
since i do not game at all i have not upgraded my 450 Watt SMPS . the hardest thing my PC does is run Avast .
till day before yesterday the CPU Fan used to be at 2800 - 3000 RPM and CPU temp between 50 - 60 C
today it is between 900 - 950 RPM and temp is 68 - 78 C ..
everything is running fine .. no problems .. no repeated rebooting .. no freezing yet
.. what is wrong with my CPU to give this largish temperature reading ?
i installed Everest Ultimate to know the temp .. it said it did not support this motherboard entirely .. so i double checked it with sensors in SpeedFan [ could not use it to speed up my fan though ]
any suggestion advice will be useful ..
thank you ..
P>S - my SMPS and CPU fans and heatsink have been cleaned 48 hours back . i have 2 new chassis fans .
hi j-kustik could u post the exact link to the page ?
 
Well, if where you live is as HOT as where I am living, I have no doubt your computer is gasping a litte bit.

My suggestion to you, is to open that case up and vacuum the dust and dirt out of it. Clean all the fins on all the case fans and the CPU fan. you can do this with a 50/50 rubbing alcohol solution and Q-TIPS. Dip the Q-TIPS in the solution, and shake it good and then remove the grime, dust and dirt from the fins of the fans and the heat sink. You may be surprised how much dust can clog those cooing fins on the CPU heatsink.

Make sure you are unplugged from the wall socket, you have grounded yourself by touching the side of the unpainted metal chassis and you push the ON button for a few seconds (after unplugging, of course), which discharges latent electricity in the capacitors.

During the summer months, I open one side of my case and keep it off. I use a small desk fan with a clip on one side and I clip it to the chassis of the computer and blow air directly into the CPU and the video card.

I think you will see a drop to where you normally are doing this.

If this doesn't reduce it enough, you might want to consider buying a better CPU/HEATSINK assembly and installing it. You have to use thermal paste if you do that, however.

The only other thing I can think of is, keeping the computer in an air conditioned room during summer hot weather.
 
Well, if where you live is as HOT as where I am living, I have no doubt your computer is gasping a litte bit.

My suggestion to you, is to open that case up and vacuum the dust and dirt out of it. Clean all the fins on all the case fans and the CPU fan. you can do this with a 50/50 rubbing alcohol solution and Q-TIPS. Dip the Q-TIPS in the solution, and shake it good and then remove the grime, dust and dirt from the fins of the fans and the heat sink. You may be surprised how much dust can clog those cooing fins on the CPU heatsink.

Make sure you are unplugged from the wall socket, you have grounded yourself by touching the side of the unpainted metal chassis and you push the ON button for a few seconds (after unplugging, of course), which discharges latent electricity in the capacitors.

During the summer months, I open one side of my case and keep it off. I use a small desk fan with a clip on one side and I clip it to the chassis of the computer and blow air directly into the CPU and the video card.

I think you will see a drop to where you normally are doing this.

If this doesn't reduce it enough, you might want to consider buying a better CPU/HEATSINK assembly and installing it. You have to use thermal paste if you do that, however.

The only other thing I can think of is, keeping the computer in an air conditioned room during summer hot weather.
 
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