What sort of temperature should a hard drive, processor and PSU be running at?
I would think it would depend on the system but here are mine at the moment, more or less with low CPU usage currently. Sensor Properties Sensor Type Asus ASB100 Bach, Winbond W83L785TS-S Sensor Access SMBus 2Dh, SMBus 2Eh Motherboard Name Asus A7N8X Temperatures Motherboard 29 °C (84 °F) CPU 43 °C (109 °F) CPU Diode 58 °C (136 °F) Cooling Fans CPU 2596 RPM Voltage Values CPU Core 1.78 V CPU Aux 1.78 V +3.3 V 3.26 V +5 V 4.92 V +12 V 12.29 V -12 V -12.21 V -5 V -4.62 V joevan
Joevan, a related question, if I may: Preamble: My brother has been having spontaneous reboot problems on his Win 98SE system. I'd never had any first hand experience with this phenomenon, but a quick Google search revealed that dust bunnies (along with bad RAM and others) is often the root cause. I sent my brother some tinyurls to my search results and he has cleaned out his machine of the furry little creatures but the problems still occur. Oddly, his computer tends to reboot while idle (he'll hear it reboot while lying in bed) -- not while the CPU is under heavy load. Question: Do you know of a freeware that will monitor the mobo and other sensors and log the poll data to a file, preferable one that could be charted, that we could study to determine his system's hardware status at the moment the reboots occur? He is unable to swap out the ram to verify it ($tarving $tudent). Is there a way to test it (again, freeware) using a software method? Of course, any other possible remedies for this rebooting problem would be welcome. To my knowledge, he's only tried cleaning the machine. Some system specs: Win98SE Intel Pentium III, 500 MHz (5 x 100) Asus P2-99 mobo 512 MB SDRAM Thanks.
DC wrote: [snip] Motherboard Monitor: http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ Memtest86: http://www.memtest86.com/ DocMemory: http://www.simmtester.com/PAGE/products/doc/docinfo.asp Beginners Guide: Diagnosing Bad Memory: http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1565 Since it's an older system, it's possible the motherboard has bad capacitors. Have him open the system and look for any signs of bad caps: bulging and/or leaking, which will be a brownish colored substance on or below the capacitor (leaking electrolyte). A picture of both problems so he knows what to look for is here: ftp://geerynet.d2g.com/Bad%20Caps%20Pic/BX133%20caps.jpg
CPU's a 386, right? No? Well, then what the hell is it? http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Taking a moment's reflection, Michael Hims mused: | | What sort of temperature should a hard drive, processor and PSU be running | at? Well, it all depends on a couple of factors ... what brand and models of all you are using, as well as the ambient room temperature they are being used in. For overclocking, the general guideline is to have the CPU within 20°C of the case temperature, and the case temperature to be within 5°C of the ambient room temperature. If you are not overclocking, you can relax these numbers substantially. I wouldn't worry about the temperature of your hard drive, unless your case temperature is also very high.
