My computer is self built and comprises an Asus P5N32 SLI SE Deluxe motherboard, Intel core 2 duo E6400 CPU, 2 x Gainward Bliss GeForce 6800 GS "GLH" Golden Sample GPUs, 2GB Crucial Ballistix ...
I am using an HP Pavillion dv6000 for almost a year and a half. I use it a lot for playing World of Warcraft. The Iaptop always used to heat up a lot but still it was working fine until abou...
The Northbridge fan on my ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard was noisey. ASUS kindly sent me a new fan/heat sink. It appears to install simply by pushing down on two pins which will penetrate the board ...
I have a Dell Optiplex GX280 that is having startup issues. It appears to be a thermal issue as the fan comes on mostly at full speed. It has com on a few times and booted up but then would lo...
I have had my HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop for about a year and a half and for the last 6 months it overheats and shuts down when it is put into "High Performance" mode. I play some games every...
I've got an HP 4400 workstation with two temp sensors -- one reporting 'ambient temp' and another reporting CPU temp. I know that temperature monitoring is an important part of computing for...
Hi I have a friend whose computer has a major overheating issue. Her pc is equipped with an AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual core 6000+ running at stock speed that would normally be at 35C and 45C during...
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I have a dell poweredge 2650 server which I use as a homeserver, its great but it does sound like a jet aircraft taking off, I know its a server and noise is not an issue in a ...
Have a client who has a IBM Thinkpad T42... they themselves (a lawyer so he has some smarts) changed out the fan and put on new thermal paste on the CPU because the laptop would frequently shu...
My computer was running hot and eventually the error message appeared. I opened the case and found lint on the heat exchanger beneath the fan and the black-metal, finned heat sink dangling fr...
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I have a 4 year old Sony Vaio laptop. It's a Sony PCG-FRV25
P4 2.66Ghz. When i first bought this thing i could run everything very smoothly, even played WC3 and Jedi knight 2 wit...
Hi, im having a problem with a dell demension 2300. the cpu fan is going out (makes a clicky grinding type noise) so i replaced it with a 90mm case fan that has no tachomiter sense wire and it...
We have 2 server racks/cabinets that are sitting against the wall in a large room which is about 15x30. We are going to have a AC unit installed above the ceiling for weekend use since the bui...
Hi, i have a Dell XPS M1210 but don't have a hard drive for it. I was wondering if anybody knows whether the cooling fan is meant to come on as soon as the laptop gets turned on, or does it ...
I've seen similar posts with this issue, but none of the suggestions have helped me resolve the problem.
History:
I had a home-built PC until one day when the CPU overheated and the whol...
A few days ago, I installed a new modem in my new Quad Core Gateway brand PC and left the side of my tower case off in case (in case I needed to go back in the case).
Last night, my pc rebo...
I have recently bought a second hand HP DL380 G2. When I first bought the machine it had Mandriva on it.
When it first boots the machine is quite noisy due to the many fans onboard. After th...
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We are moving to a new building that does not have Air Conditioning in the server room. To put in air conditioning will cost $40,000. We can't use a portable cooler as it's against buid...
I have had trouble with my Brother-in-laws Computer. It worked fine when I first built it but over time it started locking up randomly often freezing during booting. I though the symtoms seeme...
Our company uses several HP 2510p laptops. These have, so far, been very nice machines with a small footprint. Only a few of us actually use docking stations with them. Over the last few we...
I understand that stock Intel CPU fans do a good job, my concern is that they are rather loud...
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A few minutes ago my PC fan became very loud. What does this mean and how do I fix?
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