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*EDIT*Is lack of cooling my problem? ITS FIXED@#$

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chasem

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I have an Antec server case, the alienware one.
I have a 1.1 athlon with abit kt7a-raid, with a pretty good fan, i know its not retail, im not sure which one though.
i have 4 case fans.

When im doing something, fairly cpu intensive, (alt tabing between games, burnning a cd) anyone that requires a spike of cpu resources, I crash with the 'hum of death' coming from my speakers. When i drag my comp out if its little enclosment, and take off its side cover, and place a fan on it, it works 99% better. Think cooling is my issue? Is my mobo just running hot?



btw, it was my power supply, not providing enough power for cpu spikes... i realllllyy hope this helps someone, ive put up with this for like 9 months.
 
It sounds like a cooling problem. How are your case fans setup?

Also get a hw monitoring software like Motherboard monitor and report the temperatures here. Then people can tell if it's running too hot.
 
this enclosement you speak of.... does it have a way for air to flow through the computer and have a way out? or is the hot air just trapped in their with your case?
 
Well, the case cans take air out of the back of the case and push it forward. It would be pointless to point it all backwards.
Im not sure if its cooling anymore, this problem is getting progressiivally worse. I woke up this morning, with my comp being off all night, and opened the side of the case. when i had the computer running for like 3 minutes. It crashed again. I repeated the thing and it happened again. I think my comp is running a bit hot, but maybe my CPU is flaky. Or is it my motherboard? Or RAM? How can I isolate the problem. I have the money to get new parts.

 
You isolate the temp problem by reading board temp and cpu temp.

Board temp shouldn't be much higher than room temp if your case fans are moving air through the case efficiently.

CPU temp speaks for itself - I don't like any loaded cpu temp over 50C.

I have Antec 1030 with 2 80mm fans extracting in rear and Alpha 8045U on an XP1600@148MHz FSB. Max temp I've seen is 41C loaded, mid-30s idle. Case temp is mid-20s, varying with environmental room temp.

Also, from your description, I'd monitor your PS voltages, particularly the 5V line. Crashing with sudden cpu-load changes is often caused by marginal power supplies.

Hope this helps!
 
ok.... so let me get this straight....

your computer sits in an enclosement and you have air being drawn in from the back and pushed out the front?
 
yea, i have a 3 inch in diameter hole in the back and im pumping air out of the front. THE psu could be the problem, now that you mention it, How should i check it?
 
ok... i got the picture on your set up then... i was thinking you didn't have anything like that hole there... cuz if you didn't :Q

but as for testing psu's... there is like a $7 gadget floating around on the market that tests psu's... does it work? maybe... haven't used one myself... the one way that i trust is to have another that you know works and switch'em... if your psu is fairly new or not put under a large load i doubt it would be it.... btw how many watt's with your psu??

did you build this computer yourself or have it made and sent to you (a la Alienware)??
 
Im running prime95, and have been for the past 10 minutes, my comp is still solid. Im not even getting any speaker crackle. Maybe cooling isnt the problem. I think its my PSU. I only crash when i go like from 3%-100%, just huge cpu changes
 
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