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#31
Posted 05 February 2008 - 03:59 PM
That sounds bad.
#32
Posted 05 February 2008 - 04:05 PM
#33
Posted 05 February 2008 - 04:15 PM
http://www.ehow.com/...g-computer.html
http://www.gamegiant...p?articles_id=1
#34
Posted 06 February 2008 - 11:52 AM
I've talked to one of the Technicians who deals with computers who I saw today - I told him about my problem and he said it was almost definitely that the fan or circuit boards were clogged up with dust. I wouldn't really be surprised at this - the computer is on a carpeted floor, tucked away in a corner of a room with doesn't get hooved very often.
Looking through the grills in the side of my PC, they do look really clogged up with dust. Tomorrow I'll pick up a can of compressed air, and carefully unscrew the case and clean it up, if you think that's a good thing to do?
I'm now downloading a utility to check my CPU temperature - I'll post it here when it's done, so you can see if it's overheating for definite.
~ Jack
#35
Posted 06 February 2008 - 02:24 PM
#36
Posted 08 February 2008 - 01:22 PM
I cleaned out most of the dust that was clogging up my system. I was quite surprised when I think it started up faster than it ever had done before!
However sadly after 10 minutes of being on it stopped again. Bummer.
That might make me believe that in fact it isn't an overheating error - surely the CPU wouldn't overheat in just 10 minutes?
Any further ideas? I'm almost punching myself in frustration over this...
#37
Posted 08 February 2008 - 01:31 PM
#38
Posted 08 February 2008 - 04:27 PM
Tomorrow morning I will take the casing off and try running without casing on, see if that makes a difference.
If not, I'll run along to the hardware forum...
#39
Posted 08 February 2008 - 04:36 PM
#40
Posted 09 February 2008 - 04:06 AM
So I guess now that it probably isn't overheating, unless there's too much dust or something where I can't see it.
Hmm, perhaps its the CPU fan.
Now I'm left with this - I don't actually know which fan is which... :-)
Basically I can see three fans at the moment. Number 1 is small and black, its attached to the back of the case and is spinning normally. There is one wire coming out of it, but I can't see where its going. There is a small grill on the back of the case where this air is coming out.
The second fan is bright blue with a swirly pattern in the middle that looks nice when the fans spinning, which it is at the moment. It says Foxconn on it when it's still (when the PCs off). This is spinning quite fast and looks like it's attached to the motherboard.
The third and final fan that I can see is in a large box at the top of the tower. The box has "Switching Power Supply" printed on it. I can't really see if this fan's working or not because there's obviously a big box in the way - but it feels like some air current is coming out of it from the back, but this might just be from the first fan because they are very close on the back of the case.
Any further ideas? It appears that all fans are working, but you mentioned CPU fan - does this sound like any of them, or is it something else?
#41
Posted 09 February 2008 - 11:21 AM
That is probably the CPU fan. Definitely out of ideas now as I believe it is a hardware versus software problem. What you need is a programme that will monitor the temps and voltages. But, that would be way over my head I'm afraid. Unfortunately it looks like you will need a trip to the hardware forum where the real experts areThe second fan is bright blue with a swirly pattern in the middle that looks nice when the fans spinning, which it is at the moment. It says Foxconn on it when it's still (when the PCs off). This is spinning quite fast and looks like it's attached to the motherboard.
#42
Posted 09 February 2008 - 11:59 AM
Thank you SO much for giving up your own time to help me,
~ Jack
#43
Posted 09 February 2008 - 12:03 PM
#44
Posted 09 February 2008 - 12:03 PM
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