PC power unit

Forum Moderator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 1356

If its his mums PC is a 1400 T-Bird, if its the one in his flat its a Duron 800

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

says AMD Athlon XP 2200+.

Anyway just had the pc off, took the processor fan off. Ferckign hell was it hot, the sticker undreneath just fell off and it was roastign at the spindle.

Bit of wd-40 soaked up the excess blew it re-oiled it again. Now its quieter and spinning faster.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

i once had restart problems...couldnt work it out for ages...i would sit there watchin it and it would just reboot randomly as if someone was pressin the reboot button.

turned out to be a particular program i was running.....ABC torrent downloading one to be precise...stopped using it and it never did it anymore.

Level 10 User Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 570

wouldnt worry about 40 degrees that's not hot my mates 3200xp runs at 50 an idle and runs fine still.

Get a new PSU and be done with it.

Forum Moderator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 1356

What wattage is the PSU? Anything less than 300W is not going to work without problems.

Chris you have several PC's kicking about, swap the PSU from the one in your flat and see if it continues before buying a new one.

Site Subscriber Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 2317

Soneji wrote:

huwwatkins wrote:

Random restarting could be anything to be honest, PSU and motherboard being the 2 main ones. As your feels warm i'd replace that first.

Your an idiot. Everything in the PC is hot - where would he start?!?! Just because a component runs a little hot (and you would to with 240V and four voltage rails to provide for).

Sitting watching the temps will do nothing apart from confirm that your computer generates heat. You want to watch the voltage rails, 3.3V + - as well as 5V + - etc (you should find this in the bios) However for this to really work you need to be putting the computer under stress in order to assertain if the voltage is dropping below that which would cause instability, so ideally you want to be monitoring the voltages from Winodws while encoding DIVX or somethin.

Although one thing I will say is if you are getting core temps of 43.50 at idle that is a problem. I would be concerned if my AMD chip (any family, it doesn't matter they all run hot) ran at that temp under full utilization, let alone sat doing nothing!

Dont be so fucking rude ya twat! Wink

, it depends on what PSU he's using, some get warm, some dont, but they should never get very hot. Athlon XP's do sit in the mid-high 30's when not doing anything so just over 40 isnt anything to worry yourself silly about.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

350W and I was thinkign about swappign it with anothe rbut that means heading up to the flat and I can't be arsed.

I will go look at the processor temp again now I freed the fan up a bit

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

just checked em.

MB 30 degrees up from 28/29
CPU down from 43.5 to 37.5
fan speed up from 3750 to 5400 rpm

Much better. The power supply also feels a lot cooler. Must have been the fan sticking causing it to overheat.

Site Subscriber Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 2281

Always good when you solve a problem.

Level 2 User Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 54

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