Overheat

by **LordShard** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:43 pm

I got a question.
I have my PC to emergency off at 65 C.

I am using irfanview to take snapshots of a program, and store them as highly compress PNGs in a folder. Today it has jyust started overheating. I normally store as a BMP type because of low processor usage, but it hasn't overheated ewhen I play FEAR so I don't understand how this app can overheat me.

When I compress to PNG instead of BMP my CPU usage is over 90% all the time, could that be a problem? But once again even FEAR on the highest my PC can take doesn't overheat me. I took out my spare CD drive, thinkiing it might be an excessive load but that didn';t help. Whenever I run it BEEEEEP and auto-offs.

My CPU fan I beleave should be able to hit 5k RPMs easy, but I haven't seen it over 4k yet at maximum.

DId my fan die and that why it is overheating?

by **nameless** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:53 pm

the beeping is caused by the bios because the cpu is too hot (over 65°C).

open the case and make sure, that the cpu-fan is running at startup. also look for dust, because it causes the dead of many rigs (especially when it is standing at the ground and you have pets like a cat or dog). use the vacuum cleaner to take out the dust, and, if the cpu-cooler and the fan is full of it, use a cotton swab, after the cleaning with the vacuum-cleaner, with pure alcohol to clean the fan and the cooler from the dust (make sure that you take out the power cord before you're going to open the case !!!!).

by **LordShard** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:03 pm

Originally posted by nameless
the beeping is caused by the bios because the cpu is too hot (over 65°C).

open the case and make sure, that the cpu-fan is running at startup. also look for dust, because it causes the dead of many rigs (especially when it is standing at the ground and you have pets like a cat or dog). use the vacuum cleaner to take out the dust, and, if the cpu-cooler and the fan is full of it, use a cotton swab, after the cleaning with the vacuum-cleaner, with pure alcohol to clean the fan and the cooler from the dust (make sure that you take out the power cord before you're going to open the case !!!!).

I know what the beeping is for.

I just found it odd that one of the newwest and greatest games that grinds my computer to hell doens't overheat but this does.

by **Spirit of Me** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:17 pm

My Lord Sir,

Have you tried any other graphics converters? Do they give you the same heat effect?

-S

by **LordShard** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:21 pm

Originally posted by Spirit of Me
My Lord Sir,

Have you tried any other graphics converters? Do they give you the same heat effect?

-S

No, as faer as I know irfaniew is the only free one that will take screenshots and compress at the same time.

by **Spirit of Me** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:39 pm

Give ScreenGrab a try:

get it here

See if it over heats.
-S

by **LordShard** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:39 pm

Ok, I cleanred most of the dust out. It booted up at the normal tempature after I cleaened it. Since bootup hit has risen 2C. It hit 51 but then went back to 50 real fast. (48c was bootup).

I had cleaned the fan out but not the case, I didn't think you needed to clean the case.

I have also recently installed a new DVD/CD-RW combo drive. My old one won't write to CD anymore, so I installed this one.
It is a LiteOn 52x32x52CD and 16DVD+ drive.
However I had no problems with it o verheating in the 3 days I've had it until today. I reorganized the wires so get even better airflow (I had them out of the way already, but now I stuffed them all into an empty harddrive slot. And uninstalled the old CR-RW drive)This puzzles me.

My room is also hotter than normal. I coudln't figure out why until I started bitching about it, Turns out this VERY WARM october day the heater was on.... I turned the AC on and now the room itself is allot cooler.

Then I use a very CPU intensive program that puts my Athlon 3200+ with 1.5GB ram into 95%+ processor usage. SO it would run a little hotter.

Could it be all these factors combined that caused it to start overheating?

by **Spirit of Me** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:42 pm

yes a few degrees means a lot with CPU's

by **LordShard** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:51 pm

I am using the program you told me to, and it doesn't seem to have any automatic snapshot feature.
No matter how fast I jam the snapshot button I can't get it over 90% CPU

by **deathBOB** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:07 pm

I bet the CPU itself was fine, but you have the mobo read the temp and shut it off.

Never forget, the mobo temp is the temp of the socket and the sensors aren't that accurate. The chip itself is actually hotter.

There are a number of programs designed to generate load, I like Sandra myself.

by **PraiseA||ah** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:34 pm

Hmm... Clean out the dust from everything. Dust is a great insulater - keeps in the heat when you don't want to.
Are you overclocking? Step it down a notch if so.
Do you have air flow from one point - through your pc then out another point? Turbulence inside the case isn't good for cooling. You have to remove the hot air not just blow it around.
Your hard drive(s) are a major source of heat. Make sure they also have plenty of room to ventilate and aren't being stifled by the wires you said you tidied up.

by **Bromsin** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:52 pm

Download either Prime95 or Superpi and let them run. They will stress your CPU to its limit, if they dont make your CPU hit 65c then nothing else should.

by **SkiloDog2000** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:31 pm

could that be why my pc beeps randomly?
is this random beeping bad?
happens when i play bf2 and use photoshop

by **PraiseA||ah** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:32 am

Beeping. It's your computer's way of saying, 'I wuv you!!'

by **Bromsin** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:27 am

This is why I go with AMD. Never have come even close to overheating

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