Issues with authoring DVD...

[muzzbait]

fair enough, chewy...

as for the fan, i'll probably have to tidy the room up before i could do anything like that. maybe a little later on...

so, just to be 100% sure, tell me one more time what i need to do:

- remove the sides of the case
- get a fan to blow air into the computer's 'innards'.
- start up fan speed and begin a nero burn (from an authored dvd)
- monitor the cpu/hdd/mb temp.

right?

[Chewy]

pick a time when your room is cooler, early am is best, don't monitor temps,
just cool down pc and try to duplicate blue screens, very simple experiment.

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edit: muzz, I often have to setup a computer in a warm area, as a matter of course
I layout everything to allow adequate ventilation, come hottest days or times I
restrict my use to cooler parts of the day. There's a reason those IT departments have
strong airconditioning and everyone's wearing sweaters in summer!

[muzzbait]

i'll give it a go tomorrow morn, then...

may i just ask, IF this doesn't make a difference (air circ inside the case), does this mean i have a faulty piece of equipment somewhere? is there something i can do to fix this problem? perhaps another fan or something similar? surely there's some sort of temp regulator out there???

thanks so much for your assistance, chewy...is this like, the FINAL thing we should do before a clean 'hosing' (i thought that meant something REALLY bad in the USA...) and beginning all over again???

[Chewy]

Well if you can isolate the problem and it's partially heat related you can
improve that with cleaning, extra fans etc. Unfortunately things are seldom that simple. I just reloaded little beast, damn asus and sil 3112 raid
had me going in circles, it's fast, almost as fast as amd64's. I had put it in the bottom of a closet for a month!

[muzzbait]

seldom that simple??? uh oh...you don't sound so confident...

anyway, i'll give the electric fan thing a go tomorrow, and let you know how i go...

is it easy to install an extra fan or two to cool the system down? i mean, can it be done? is it expensive???

[Chewy]

the fans are cheap, if there's a place to put one?

[muzzbait]

i'm not quite sure where to look, to tell you the truth!

well, as long as they're cheap, that's okay...are they easy to mount/install???

[muzzbait]

how's this for cheating death...?

i remember in highschool, my science teacher would tell me that i never came up with 'practical solutions' to problems, or something to that effect...get this.

i haven't been able to burn/backup at all. the cpu overheats within ten minutes, causing bluescreens or restarts. so what i have 'experimented' with has been to 'pause' the dvd shrink encoding process anytime the cpu temps got up to 59c. the computer restarts at 60, so i haven't been chancing it. so, it let it encode until the temp gets to 59, then i pause. i wait for the temps to go down to 53 or 54, then i start the process again. it takes about 4 or 5 'pauses', but the job has been getting done...

now, with the 'authoring'. this is a bigger problem. it'll probably take 10 hours to do that one...sigh.

[muzzbait]

chewy, i just tried what you suggested with the fans/open case. not much difference...i tried it twice, actually...i removed everything (both sides the case to improved air circ), and the desk was free of clutter...it took a little longer to heat up, i must say, but it still reached 60 and cut out...i think i need to get another fan put in. it looks like i only have one fan in my computer (or one fan that works), so maybe that's the problem? one of the fans has ceased working, and so things are overheating???

[Chewy]

muzz,
looks like it might be heat related then after all, experiment further, I had
a cpu fan quit and continued to run the system with a small room fan blowing on the heatsink.

[muzzbait]

hmmm...so, two fans is 'standard' on current computers, is it???

would those small, battery operated fans do the job? like the ones they hand out at the tennis or other sporting events???

[Chewy]

I am close to the middle of winter here, room is 17C,
case/motherboard same temp
cpu in sensor everest 30C (overclocked and idle)
cpu diode is 45C
your temps at 60 are probably not diode readings so more than likely
you are redlining your cpu(burning it up).

It won't last much longer.

[muzzbait]

what do you mean it won't last much longer??? so what can i do about that???

[muzzbait]

actually, i just checked the temps, and temp2 is stalled at 58.5...what does this mean?

[Chewy]

keep it from ever rebooting, bluescreening