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23rd Jul 2007, 10:24
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 Hard Drive.... overheating I have a little problem. I think my hard drive is overheating... well, my computer freezes after about 20 minutes of use. I took the side panel off and that had no effect. I replaced the fans, cleaned the heatsink... I also replaced the thermal compound (and yes, I did it correctly). That ruled out my processor (I think) because speedfan tells me I run in the 40 celcius range. HD0 (mah hard drive) hits about 70 celcius and then freezes... even with ice packs, and even when I unhook it and let it hand outside the case itself. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Manufacturer Compaq Presario 06 System Model DC479A-ABA S3200NX NA110 System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~1998 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.03, 1/24/2003 SMBIOS Version 2.2 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)" Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Memory 768.00 MB Available Physical Memory 303.32 MB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 1.76 GB Ideas? |
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23rd Jul 2007, 10:54
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| Hard Drive.... overheating I say it was unlikely to be honest.
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23rd Jul 2007, 12:01
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| Hard Drive.... overheating Do you have an idea how I can check this? or is it the old "trial and error" method? |
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23rd Jul 2007, 12:29
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| Hard Drive.... overheating To check your RAM you should run memtest(link)
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23rd Jul 2007, 13:26
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| Hard Drive.... overheating memtest pulled up no errors. So I guess next in line is checking to see if windows is corrupt? |
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23rd Jul 2007, 13:28
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| Hard Drive.... overheating you could do a windows repair with the CD, but it's looking like it's hardware related.
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you could try the windows repair to see if it finds any errors... or you could throw in a linux CD and see if the problem persists past that My System: hAvAAck Build 3
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23rd Jul 2007, 13:55
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| Hard Drive.... overheating A Windows repair is always a good test, if your PC crashes or freezes whilst installing Windows, you 99% have a hardware fault IMO. |
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24th Jul 2007, 06:00
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| Hard Drive.... overheating If you download everest from the download section, install it and click on Sensor, it will give you an accurate reading of your temps Post back a screenshot so I can see if anything looks strange
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