Enough with the updating...

[alexpgp]

The motherboard monitoring utility I mentioned in the last update to the previous post is quite feature-packed. In the course of doing the virus scan, the CPU temperature hit 70°C, triggering a preset audible alarm. I'm not sure of the significance of that temperature figure, but if that's a generally accepted "high enough to matter" temperature, then the 80°C temperature I glimpsed during boot-up is probably beyond the pale.

The dust in Pagosa is murder on electronics (and, probably, on the biological systems around here, too). I'm sure it clogged ellroy's CPU fan, twice, and it seems to have done a number on onegin's power supply, which keeps cutting out after some indeterminate amount of time (onegin lasted a week the last time I started it; today, it lasted less than 3 hours). I can only guess what it's doing to proust's CPU fan (although a little while ago, I could feel heat being spewed out of the unit's vent, so it's still working).

I've reset the temperature alarm, as the CPU temperature seems to be varying between 67°C and 70°C. We'll see where that leads us.

Cheers...

Comments

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

If you know what your processor is, you can google it for the thermal specs. My AMD maxes at 85C, but some of them go up to 95C. Your memory chips might also be overheating if the whole case interior is getting hot.

Two free hard disk tools that might also be useful are HDDlife (http://www.hddlife.com), and HDD Thermometer (http://www.rsdsoft.com/). The first one does a check of the drive and the second one is just a temperature measuring utility.