You'd be surprised at what makes a CPU get hot.

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Post #172,328

9/2/04 12:02:51 AM

You'd be surprised at what makes a CPU get hot.

I had a bizarre situation the other week here at work. Acrobat was hanging partway through a document export on a user's PC. As it progressed through the document - and it was over 200 pages, too - the fan on the CPU could be heard to get louder and louder. By the time it reached it's hang point, the fan was going full-bore. And it stayed that way until the Acrobat process was killed.

(And the problem? Acrobat needs the screen at 1024x768 or higher. Don't know why except that at 800x600, it hangs partway through. Always the same spot, too.)

Wade.

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed

Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.

Post #172,329

9/2/04 12:09:14 AM

2nd experiment, amazing results!

John turned off spell checker and grammar checker on Word.

I archived another 200+ page file, no extra Walgreens fan blowing on the open computer.

Temp in Zone 2 never went above 90.

Wow.....

I know it's still not a permanent fix, but it's good enough for me to feel safe archiving the rest of the group, as long as I take a break between each file.

John said the processes of checking every post and word and grammar was probably what was taking most of the extra the CPU power, and it looks like he was right. And I don't want to alter my group anyway, I want it exactly like it was originally posted, so I need no spell/grammar check on it.

Still gonna give Nikolai a full cleaning and check over on the weekend though.

Thanks for everyone's input, it's nice at least to know what's causing it, and that I have ways to control how hot it gets even temporarily.

Nightowl >8#

"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." -- Robert Hughes, Australian Art Critic, Writer

Post #172,385

Picture of Arkadiy

9/2/04 9:47:31 AM

Real world physics intrude in our digital fancies

How dare they! We just got a perfect world going here.

Ashton, vindicated.

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I love the accent: \ufffdMedicine Square Godden.\ufffd
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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

Sex. Always sex.
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