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| Thread ID: 97926 | 2009-03-04 11:32:00 | So how did you fix it????? | Trader46 (8437) | Press F1 |
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| 753421 | 2009-03-04 11:32:00 | This month's PC World has a great letter - which won letter of the month - about a Vista overheating problem which apparently had something to do with the task bar. The letter chats away interestingly about all this - wins the prize but no one tells us the bug or the fix. I suspect I have the same heating issue and CPU consumption, slowness etc... Does anyone know what the problem was and the fix??? |
Trader46 (8437) | ||
| 753422 | 2009-03-04 11:42:00 | Try using it for shorter periods, to give it time to cool down. | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 753423 | 2009-03-04 13:46:00 | Hmmm... Normally expect better advice than that from the Jedi master. (Or perhaps I misunderstood, and it really was a pearl of wisdom..?) |
Laura (43) | ||
| 753424 | 2009-03-04 19:01:00 | This month's PC World has a great letter - which won letter of the month - about a Vista overheating problem which apparently had something to do with the task bar . The letter chats away interestingly about all this - wins the prize but no one tells us the bug or the fix . I suspect I have the same heating issue and CPU consumption, slowness etc . . . Does anyone know what the problem was and the fix??? I thought the same, ok, so after all the long preamble what's the solution ? |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 753425 | 2009-03-04 20:05:00 | Hmmm... Normally expect better advice than that from the Jedi master. (Or perhaps I misunderstood, and it really was a pearl of wisdom..?) The taskbar causing Vista to overheat :waughh: makes no sense. This may help us (pressf1.co.nz) |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 753426 | 2009-03-04 21:17:00 | It was the taskbar using 50%+ CPU usage constantly Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to get the Windows Task Manager Click the Processes tab Click on the "CPU" heading to sort by CPU Usage, and then click on it once more after a brief delay to sort by highest usage at the top If you see something other than "System idle process" using more than 20%, note down what it is and post back here. It may be the Sidebar or something constantly using your CPU and causing it to run hot, essentially overheating it if its in a poorly ventilated area. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 753427 | 2009-03-04 22:00:00 | If you're CPU is overheating because a process is using 50% CPU then the cooling setup your PC sucks, frankly. I often have my PC running overnight rendering videos or whatever else, one example - middle of summer, 2 hour video, 720p resolution, both processor cores running between 90% and 100% usage for over 6 hours. Case temps got to 45deg, CPU was 43deg, grpahics card 75deg. If its a brand name PC under warranty, take it back. If its a white box PC, then blow dust out of the case, tidy up the cabling and clean the CPU and heatsink, put on some new thermal pate. And pop in a case fan or two, or an aftermarket CPU cooler. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 753428 | 2009-03-04 22:06:00 | Yup but some laptops if they're in an enclosed space ... ;) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 753429 | 2009-03-04 22:45:00 | Laptops - true. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 753430 | 2009-03-04 23:58:00 | Notwithstanding any of the above, it doesn't explain how a letter that didn't say what the problem was with the task bar (if any), and didn't say how the problem (if it was a problem) came to be fixed, won a prize?? | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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