Computer Temperature 'TOO' high?

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Hi:
When I put 'HDD' diagnoses, it says, .... 'Temperature' is "too" high, 45 -
48
degree C. and 'Warning' Box popping up in the middle of the Screen, ...
'not critical, but need to pay close attention.'

About two weeks ago, there was 'crash,' however luckily the computer came
back to life itself, after a week's rest.
However, before 'Crash,' the computer made 'awful noise,' without any
serious aftermath-damage.

Now, the past catastroph started showing this problem, 'too hot?'
Or,
One of fans in the computer started to malfunction?

For this prevention, what measures should I take NOT to fly 'motherboard?'

Thanks for your help/input in advance.
 
Camel said:
Hi:
When I put 'HDD' diagnoses, it says, .... 'Temperature' is "too"
high, 45 - 48
degree C. and 'Warning' Box popping up in the middle of the Screen,
... 'not critical, but need to pay close attention.'

About two weeks ago, there was 'crash,' however luckily the
computer came back to life itself, after a week's rest.
However, before 'Crash,' the computer made 'awful noise,' without
any serious aftermath-damage.

Now, the past catastroph started showing this problem, 'too hot?'
Or,
One of fans in the computer started to malfunction?

For this prevention, what measures should I take NOT to fly
'motherboard?'

Thanks for your help/input in advance.
Click to expand...

Check the fans - are they working?
What processor do you have?
It really depends on the maximum for *your* CPU.. That is warm for some,
normal for others.
 
Hi:
Thanks for the response.

The profile of my computer is as follow;

HP Pavillion Intel (R)
Celeron (R) CPU 2.00 GHz
1.99 GHz
512 MB of Ram

As to the 'fans,' I checked all of them a month before the 'crash,'
then I doubt that any of fans got bad.

Rather, is motherboard going to deteriorate, as seeing 'Crash' the
Computer went through?

Thanks for your response.
 
Camel said:
Thanks for the response.

The profile of my computer is as follow;

HP Pavillion Intel (R)
Celeron (R) CPU 2.00 GHz
1.99 GHz
512 MB of Ram

As to the 'fans,' I checked all of them a month before the 'crash,'
then I doubt that any of fans got bad.

Rather, is motherboard going to deteriorate, as seeing 'Crash' the
Computer went through?
Click to expand...

The motherboard is hardware.. Since I do not know what the "crash"
entailed - unless it was a physical crash.. (meltdown, etc) - then it will
have little effect on the hardware.

I believe the Intel Celeron processor has a maximum operating temperature of
between 85°C and 100°C, measured at the center of the surface of the
processor core case. Boxed Intel Celeron processors require that the air
temperature at the fan intake remain above 45°C to ensure that the case
temperature remains below between 85°C and 100°C.

So yours is falling in that range and you may want to consider changing your
warning temperature (perhaps in the BIOS or in whatever software is
monitoring it) or get a bigger/better fan - although being a proprietary
system (HP) -> likely not a good idea.
 
Hi:
Thanks for the detailed response on this problem.

As to 'Crash,' ... which happened about four wks ago and it was a sort of
'hardware'
crash, because both Mouse and Keyboard stopped working. Then, I hit 'F10'
key in
hopes to bring up the computer alive, ... in my desperational state.

However, it didn't work, and kept 'blank' in the screen. Afterwards, I gave
up to put the
computer away, as believing there was NO hope/life in this computer.

When I installed DSL, however I tested whether this computer was still
'useful.' The next I found
was, ... in my astonishment, the computer came back to its life after a
week's rest, as showing
'Welcome' screen as if nothing happened before.

Despite this 'Crash,' I still want to stick with this computer, mostly
because I put a lot of time for
installing many programs. However, in my hindsight, I still worry, then I
installed 'PC Beginner' purchased
from http://www.pcbeginner.org./ and tested on 'Fans' and got the result
stated in my previous post.

Once awhile, I hear some 'buzzing noise' coming from front panel of the
computer, then it could be Fan going bad?
Probably, I need to 're-check' all of fans inside once more?

Your help would be truly appreciated.
 
Camel said:
Thanks for the detailed response on this problem.

As to 'Crash,' ... which happened about four wks ago and it was a
sort of 'hardware'
crash, because both Mouse and Keyboard stopped working. Then, I
hit 'F10' key in
hopes to bring up the computer alive, ... in my desperational state.

However, it didn't work, and kept 'blank' in the screen.
Afterwards, I gave up to put the
computer away, as believing there was NO hope/life in this computer.

When I installed DSL, however I tested whether this computer was
still 'useful.' The next I found
was, ... in my astonishment, the computer came back to its life
after a week's rest, as showing
'Welcome' screen as if nothing happened before.

Despite this 'Crash,' I still want to stick with this computer,
mostly because I put a lot of time for
installing many programs. However, in my hindsight, I still worry,
then I installed 'PC Beginner' purchased
from http://www.pcbeginner.org./ and tested on 'Fans' and got the
result stated in my previous post.

Once awhile, I hear some 'buzzing noise' coming from front panel of
the computer, then it could be Fan going bad?
Probably, I need to 're-check' all of fans inside once more?

Your help would be truly appreciated.
Click to expand...

Could be a fan - but could be the power supply or even bad RAM (memory) or a
bad hard disk drive.
 
Hi:
Many thanks for your response. I truly appreciate.

After having thought overnite, probably I do NOT touch anything
inside the computer. As in my previous post, this machine got a serious
problem, then you are right. The problem must be not only fans but also
motherboard
or some other stuff. I installed /added a 256 MB about a month ago. Then,
it might
be some conflict?

BTW, this morning when the computer started, it says,
36 degree C. But, yesterday afternoon it said 45-48 degrees C.
Seems to me the longer the computer idling the hotter the computer
getting.

Either way, I'm well prepared for worse scenerio, then I plan to back-up
as much as I can.

Thanks AGAIN, for your help.
 
Camel

Just an "fyi" -- I went through this awhile ago with a PC that was about
3-years old and the problem was that the cooling fins on the heat-sink of the
CPU were completely filled with dust and cat hair -- once that was taken care
of the problem went away... in my case I did not have any temperature
monitoring routines running, but the PC would just shutdown... seemingly at
random.

In terms of "how" to clean the fins, given that the fan normally sits right
on top of the fins, I can't say I know the best way to do it, but what I did
was to blow compress air into it (between 10 and 20 lbs at the most -- at as
great a distance away as possible)... you do have to be really careful doing
this so as not to dislocate any components -- specifically motherboard
jumpers.

Good luck.

Harry
 
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