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Post #172,125
by Nightowl
9/1/04 1:55:50 AM
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New Bizarre change
It's almost 1 am, the temperature in the room is about 80, and suddenly the temp in Zone 2 started rising again. I checked on it repeatedly, and it hit 104 before starting back down.

While it was heating up, I felt Zone 2 (I know how now) and it did feel warmer. I can't figure out what was heating it up, all the fans were blowing. Only difference from earlier today when it never went up was the small fan blowing on me and the computer from behind me. It wasn't on tonight.

John joked it was all the copying and pasting into Word I was doing yesterday, cause I did a lot. Surely that wouldn't be the case right? What's weird though, is I was not doing it earlier today, but was doing it now, when the temp went up. Coincidence?

This gets more and more mysterious, I swear.

Nightowl >8#


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Post #172,189
by Steven A S
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9/1/04 11:16:19 AM
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New Re: Bizarre change
Considering the location, and you say the power supply isn't overly hot; the best that I can come up with is that you're getting a dead air pocket between the side of the PS and the motherboard. Having a room fan blowing on the open computer would get the air flowing through that pocket allowing it to cool better.

Newer power supplys actually have two fans; one on the back side like the traditional units (blowing out), and one underneath the unit pulling air away from the CPU. If you don't have one of these PS units, you might consider getting one. Beyond that, I don't have any ideas.
~~~)-Steven----

"I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..."

General George S. Patton
     Nikolai mysteriously overheating - (Nightowl) - (42) - Aug. 30, 2004, 10:09:57 PM EDT
         Rename it Reginald - (deSitter) - Aug. 30, 2004, 09:20:49 PM EDT
         Off hand, that seems to be pretty cool for a processor. - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Aug. 30, 2004, 09:36:03 PM EDT
             It's not the Processor Temperature :) - (Nightowl) - Aug. 30, 2004, 09:43:03 PM EDT
         May have found the answer - (Nightowl) - (38) - Aug. 30, 2004, 10:34:50 PM EDT
             Ah was wrong about affects - (Nightowl) - (37) - Aug. 30, 2004, 11:19:39 PM EDT
                 Re: Ah was wrong about affects - (Steven A S) - (19) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:31:37 AM EDT
                     Not sure about Hard Drives - (Nightowl) - (18) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:36:17 AM EDT
                         best thing to do is throw that alarm thingy away - (boxley) - (12) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:42:41 AM EDT
                             Well... - (Nightowl) - (1) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:44:00 AM EDT
                                 Here ya go - (deSitter) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:45:33 AM EDT
                             rofl agreed - (deSitter) - (9) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:44:09 AM EDT
                                 of course not - (boxley) - (8) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:48:50 AM EDT
                                     Oh I beg to differ - (Nightowl) - (7) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:51:27 AM EDT
                                         He said 'smoke and burning smell,' nothing about a clunk -NT - (drewk) - (6) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:55:12 AM EDT
                                             Ah ok - (Nightowl) - (2) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:57:06 AM EDT
                                                 certainly the clunk was at fault - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 31, 2004, 11:59:41 AM EDT
                                                     We never completely determined it - (Nightowl) - Aug. 31, 2004, 12:11:13 PM EDT
                                             Smoke, smell, clunk, dead body in trunk... - (deSitter) - (2) - Aug. 31, 2004, 12:03:26 PM EDT
                                                 that is funny as hell. - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 31, 2004, 12:43:51 PM EDT
                                                     Re: that is funny as hell. - (inthane-chan) - Aug. 31, 2004, 01:10:39 PM EDT
                         Re: Not sure about Hard Drives - (Steven A S) - (4) - Aug. 31, 2004, 02:44:47 PM EDT
                             Thanks - (Nightowl) - Aug. 31, 2004, 02:54:23 PM EDT
                             Okay, here is what I know about fans, etc. - (Nightowl) - (2) - Aug. 31, 2004, 10:51:05 PM EDT
                                 Bizarre change - (Nightowl) - (1) - Sept. 1, 2004, 01:55:50 AM EDT
                                     Re: Bizarre change - (Steven A S) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:16:19 AM EDT
                 Anyway, getting back to Nikolai... - (Nightowl) - (16) - Aug. 31, 2004, 12:51:13 PM EDT
                     you wont know until it breaks :-) -NT - (boxley) - Aug. 31, 2004, 12:52:21 PM EDT
                     Tried an experiment...shocked at the results - (Nightowl) - (14) - Sept. 1, 2004, 10:59:08 PM EDT
                         Processor usage - (deSitter) - (10) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:03:29 PM EDT
                             Re: Processor usage - (Nightowl) - (9) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:07:34 PM EDT
                                 Re: Processor usage - (deSitter) - (8) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:13:58 PM EDT
                                     Re: Processor usage - (Nightowl) - (7) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:28:10 PM EDT
                                         Re: Processor usage - (deSitter) - (6) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:33:36 PM EDT
                                             Okay, I told him - (Nightowl) - (5) - Sept. 1, 2004, 11:47:48 PM EDT
                                                 Re: Okay, I told him - (deSitter) - (4) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:15:40 AM EDT
                                                     I see - (Nightowl) - (3) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:19:02 AM EDT
                                                         Don't know about that -NT - (deSitter) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:19:36 AM EDT
                                                         Clean the crap off the leading edges of the fan blades. -NT - (pwhysall) - (1) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:23:08 AM EDT
                                                             Will do, Peter - (Nightowl) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:27:57 AM EDT
                         You'd be surprised at what makes a CPU get hot. - (static) - (2) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:02:51 AM EDT
                             2nd experiment, amazing results! - (Nightowl) - (1) - Sept. 2, 2004, 12:09:14 AM EDT
                                 Real world physics intrude in our digital fancies - (Arkadiy) - Sept. 2, 2004, 09:47:31 AM EDT

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