cpu running hot Saturday, May 14, 2005 at 7:57 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Steve C (276 messages posted) I am posting this not as a question but as a question and and answer because I have already found the problem and wish to pass along the what I found out and how it got solved. My cpu was running hot, about 168 degrees plus. I have an amd 1.6 ghz processor and amd runs hot anyway, but not that hot. I tried reinstalling the heatsink fan with silver paste and all of that, then it would start up cool, get a little hot and all of a sudden go nuts. Bottom line to this was that the power supply fan eventually stopped running altogether and the ps was heating up adding heat to the case, not taking air out, etc. It must have been erratic to cause the cool, then warm then the out of control type heat. It was only after I was starting to smell and electrical heatup that I looked and found that the fan was not turning. I had a spare ps and installed and everything is great. So lesson learned is that an erratic powers supply fan can come and go and fool you then get worse until you can nail it down as the culprit. Apparently the fan would run erratically and thus cause the fluctuations in temps of the cpu, mb, and case. Learn from this one. Steve C Responses to this message: re: Usual giveaway is either more noise or a LOT LESS noise (Kiwi: Saturday, May 14, 2005 at 12:11 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] cpu running hot (Steve C: Sat, May 14, 2005, 7:57 am) re: Usual giveaway is either more noise or a LOT LESS noise (Kiwi: Sat, May 14, 2005, 12:11 pm) re: Usual giveaway is either more noise or a LOT LESS noise (Steve C: Sat, May 14, 2005, 7:21 pm) re: Usual giveaway is either more noise or a LOT LESS noise (Kiwi: Sun, May 15, 2005, 10:15 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum