TIA:
Have you felt the heatsink? Is it hot to the touch?
If so, it could be that your cpu fan is not providing proper cooling!
I would replace the cpu fan with a small case fan that could attach to atleast 2 edges on the heat sink. You will need long screws simiklar to drywall screws.
The case fan will get power directly from the power supply and will not slow down or run fast as determined by MB sensors. It will however run at constant speed providing great cooling effect!
Also a case fan placed near the CPU on the case itself may help also.
Christopher C. Charles
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:53:32 -0500
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Mobo Heat Problems
>
> I'm not sure if reseating the CPU heatsink will address this issue or
> not.
> Apparently it is a motherboard sensor that is reporting a temperature
> being
> too high, not the CPU. On the other hand, it appears that the CPU
> threshold
> is so high that I could imagine a 70 deg. C. processor warming up the
> surrounding area, as well.
>
> I'm not familiar with the Intel Monitor; does it give you any actual
> temperature readings or does it simply provide alarms for preset
> temperatures? Have you already followed the suggestions in the web page
> you
> linked to (and quoted below)?
>
> a.. If you are using Intel Active Monitor, you may increase the
> temperature
> threshold. You can safely increase the Zone 1, Zone 2 or Motherboard
> Zone
> threshold up to 60 Degrees Celsius (140 Degrees Fahrenheit).
> a.. If you are using Intel Desktop Utilities version 2.0.11.46 or
> earlier,
> upgrade the software to the latest version, which sets the zone default
> thresholds to 65°C.
>
> If you don't have a way to currently check the temperatures from the
> windows
> desktop, I'd be curious at least to know what the temperatures are from
> within the BIOS. I assume that this motherboard has somesort of PC
> Health
> Monitoring section in the BIOS where you can at least see the CPU and
> motherboard temperatures.
>
> You might also try disabling fan control in the BIOS, if it is enabled,
> to
> see if this helps. I believe the fan on Intel heatsinks blows down; so,
> this is where some indirect air circulation is suppose to come from in
> the
> area that is overheating. If the fan on the heatsink is running slowly,
> because the CPU tempereature isn't that high, the surrounding MB area may
> not get enough air circulation.
>
> A third party program, such as speedfan, can give you temperature
> readings
> from the windows desktop, though you may have to spend some time through
> trial and error to figure out what exactly each temperature corresponds
> to
> (and some may actually be meaningless). I'll use a program like Prime95
> to
> stress the CPU and then observe which tempertures are going up while it
> is
> running. Typically, there are two types of CPU temperatures read by
> speedfan. One is the actual core temperature, which is sounds like what
> the
> Intel Monitor reacts to, and the other is a temperture outside of the
> core,
> which I take to be something closer to the temperature of the
> heatspreader
> on the top of the CPU. While speedfan usually provides a MB temperature
> like the one you can usually find in the BIOS, I don't know if it will
> pick
> up all the MB sensors that Intel Monitor watches (that is, the zones
> around
> the CPU, the northbridge temperature, and the southbridge temperature).
>
> John Sproule
>
> ----------Original Message Below---------------
>
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:30:22 -0500
> From: John Freibergs <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Mobo Heat Problems
>
> Hi,=20
>
> I have an Intel D865GBF mobo with a Prescott 2.8 Pentium CPU with 1G of
> r=
> am. I'm having over heating problems in System Zone 2 on the Intel
> monit=
> oring system see the following url.
> http://support.intel.com/support/mo=
> therboards/desktop/sb/CS-012552.htm
>
> Judging by the diagram it appears to be one corner of the CPU zone.
> Righ=
> t now I overheat just doing a virus scan and have real problems playing
> a=
> ny sort of games which are so old they wouldn't need any sort of current
> =
> graphics card(mine is an nVidia 256mb one). Any suggestions on fixing
> th=
> ings. I've cleaned everything with compressed air and a vacuum. The
> CPU=
> fan does work and I'm thinking of taking the heatsink off and
> reattachin=
> g things. But other than when I first built it, I've never had things
> ap=
> art and I'm worried about doing damage. If I remember correctly the
> heat=
> sink and fan had an adhesive type thermal connection when I put it
> togeth=
> er. Will that come apart without effort or do I risk trashing the
> proces=
> sor? If things seperate OK what works for cleaning the residue off
> befor=
> e I apply thermal paste and try reasembling.
>
> Any help you guys could provide would really be appreciated. I have a
> Co=
> oler Master CM690 box with 3 fans and just oredered up 3 more. But with
> =
> both sides off right now I'm still having heat issues and it's
> frustratin=
> g.
>
> TIA
> John
>
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