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| Thread ID: 92638 | 2008-08-17 07:06:00 | CPU overheating, how hot is too hot? | Damz (10942) | Press F1 |
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| 698018 | 2008-08-17 07:06:00 | Hi guys, I had a little mis-hap today.. I was moving my pc into another room, and i dropped it, only from about 6 inches from the ground though. Anyways, I go to start it up, its running really slow, just gets onto the desktop and then zap, the whole PC turns off. I try again but the same thing happens, but this time I was just able to open up PC Probe and see that the CPU was at 73*C!! .....Then zap, it died again. So off came the side cover and I realised the stock clip on heatsink (intel E6750 2.66 dual core) had come off. Put it back on and now everything seems a OK. Just wondering though, will 73 degrees have cooked anything? ie, should I start saving? TIA :badpc: |
Damz (10942) | ||
| 698019 | 2008-08-17 07:10:00 | Sounds like the computer shut itself down before it could destory itself. Most BIOS's allow you to set a temp where the computer will shut down to prevent damage. |
stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 698020 | 2008-08-17 07:51:00 | Good news. I was hoping it was a safety feature that was making it turn off, as opposed to the CPU slowly melting.. | Damz (10942) | ||
| 698021 | 2008-08-17 08:26:00 | Most CPU's have circuitry, built in It'll shut the system off automatically, if the temp gets too high To protect itself from frying |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 698022 | 2008-08-17 08:29:00 | overclocking = patently unwise poor ventilation = too hot disabling the thermal protection in the bios = too hot wanting to say "ow" when touching components = waaaay too hot |
Kill Them All (13708) | ||
| 698023 | 2008-08-17 09:20:00 | The BIOS usually has an overheat 'defense mechanism' on by default, that makes the computer shut down when temperatures get too high. Some cases also have an alarm inbuilt for the same reasons. |
pingu45 (13461) | ||
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