> I note that the monitoring of CPU core temperature (from BIOS) states that > the core is running at 65 degrees celsius and case temperature is at 29 to > 30 degrees.
A core of 65°C is definitely hot, but depending on CPU model may be normal. You can verify this by feeling the temp of the heat sink on the CPU. The heat sink may be, wild guess, 50°C when the core is 65°C. The temp inside the case shouldn't be much more than ambient room temp, so you can easily do a sanity check on this too. Anybody know the typical core temp of an AMD3200+ venice core (socket 939)? Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
