A hot CPU can cause a number of problems. Its very possible that the
CPU fan has failed. (mine did and the temperatures were similar). Take
the hood off, and connect the keyboard, mouse and monitor and start it
up to see if the cpu fan is running. I bet that its not running or not
running at full speed. With a hot cpu, I had a number of anomalies and
it took a while to figure out. Fortunately, my Bios gave me an error
about the fan speed which directed me to locat the problem.
Keith
The Wielder of the Scythe wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> My rig has 2 HDDs. The 20GB one is partitioned to 2 FAT32 10GB drives while the
>older 12GB is
> into 6 FAT16 drives. The 10GB drives are C:\ and E:\.
> This morning when I went to check email after leaving the comp. on overnight as I
>always do,
> when I went to the Start Menu, the screen just froze after going through some of the
>menus. I
> had to warm reboot. But after NDD went through the motions with lost clusters and
>booted up to
> windows, I could not access drives H, I and J. All other drives were OK. Checked
>with "device
> manager " and it said all drives were working properly. Rebooted to dos and the same
>drives were
> invisible. Robooted and checked the bios and the HDDs were all there. Out of
>curiosity I looked
> at the bios hardware monitor and it reported the cpu and mobo temperature was 41C.
> Switched off the system and let it cool for 10mins. Voila! All partitions were
>back.Ran ndd
> again to thoroughly check all drives and no problem was found.
>
> So can overheating (if that was what it was since the bios monitors are not accurate
>based on
> experience) ruin partitions? It does not seem to be a bad hdd as norton disk doctor
>did not find
> any fault there. So what caused it and how can I prevent a recurrence?
> BTW, the computer is never switched off except when forced to after a crash. Can
>this be a
> contributory factor (seems like a dumb question)?
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
> Rig details:
> Win98 org. (but patched)
> PIII-800mhz cpu
> 256ram
> asus CUV4X mobo
> Both HDD from Quantum
>
> Oh, one more question.
> I have a comp. at work and the clock keeps running faster. On average my guess is
>about 20mins a
> day. The cpu is not overclocked or anything like that and there are no apps running
>in the
> background except a LAN. How can I fix it WITHOUT installing third-party apps as it
>is a company
> rig?
> Details:
> PIII-600(I think)
> 128mb
> mobo unknown
> win98se
>
> TIA again
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