CPU Temperature

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I've just upgraded my computer to a Pentium III 1Ghz running on an Asus CUSL2-C with 256Mb Mushkin memory. I took everything to a shop and asked them to put it together but I think they did not do a very good job. Amongst other things I noticed that my cpu temperature goes as high as 70C when I boot the computer. Isn't that too hot? The cpu fan they installed only does 5273 RPM. Should I get another fan or is this temperature normal?
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tralala
 
ASUS temperature monitoring is known to be inaccurate.

However. Open up your case. Is the CPU fan spinning? I guess it should be if it reports 5273RPM in the BIOS. (hope you didn't install that windows temperature monitoring crap. I curse the employee who came up with the idea of displaying RPM's and temperatures. Not the space shuttle here) Does the fan and Heatsink appear secure on the motherboard? Usually unavoidably secure since they provide heatsink/clamps you have to almost STAND on to get them to clamp onto the chip (what's with this? get with it intel). The Coolermaster fans are much easier to install, with an OEM FC-PGA.

Unless your machine is locking up every 3 seconds, than I wouldn't worry about it.

Also, what "other things" do you refer to as far as the quality of the installation. These things are easy to correct.
 
"Usually unavoidably secure since they provide heatsink/clamps you have to almost STAND on to get them to clamp onto the chip"

I'll second that! I installed my first one last week and spent 1/2 hour thinking I was obviously doing something wrong. It couldn't take that much force to clamp. Thought I was going to crush the friggin' PIII.
 
Hi Emeric
I'm afraid I did install Asus PC probe. Is it not accurate?
How do I check temperature and fan speed in Bios?
Well since you ask one of my other problems is that they changed the name of one partition (from E to D) and they could not change it back to E. So, now when I open a song Cubase goes looking for the audio files in E but they are not there. I know all I have to do is choose automatic or manual search to find the files and then change the audio pool. It's a lot of work but simple enough. The problem is that alot of the files are gone and also I get this messge all the time " use xyz.wav created on 22/03/01 and modified on 10/01/00?". Notice the dates, the files were created after they were modified. I don't know what they did with the computer. They said they could do the job in 3 hours and it took them 3 days and I was left with a very confused machine. Is it possible to change that partitions name from D to E?
Thanks for your reply.
tralala
PS. So you think I should ignore the temperature reading if the computer doesn't lock up all the time?
 
If you are running NT or 2000, then you can rearrange the partition letters to your hearts content using the Disk Administrator tool. It's usually found under Administrative Tools in NT, and under Administrative Tools -> Computer Management (Look at the Disk Management option).

- gaffa
 
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm using Windows 98SE.
tralala
 
I assume you have a CD or zip drive or something named D:. By changing that to F: and rebooting your drive should go back to D: The normal letter order is all hard drives before anything else.

You can also get cpu temps by going into the BIOS. This is where the ASUS software is almost certainly pulling them from.

I would say that as long as the cpu fan is spinning and not making noise, and the machine is not locking up, don't worry about it.
 
I will try changing the letters of the other drives but I don't think it will work because I want to change the partition D to E. The computer will not let me choose D for other drives so that partition will remain using letter D. I don't know if I'm making myself clear.
A is for Floppy disk, C first partition HD, D second partition, E Iomega Jaz, F CD Rom, G CD recorder.
Thanks for your reply. I will let you know what happens.
tralala
P.S I realise you thought I wanted to change from E to D and I can see it would work if that were the case but it's the other way around, from D to E.
 
You said that the drive used to be E:. What was on D: at that time?

The other thing you might want to try is making two logical drives from your extended (second) partition. You could make a very small D: drive, and the use the rest of the partition for E:

Of course, you will lose all current data doing that, so I don't know if it's an option for you.
 
D was the Iomega jaz.
How do I make two logical drives from the second partition. Is it something I could do myself. Let me tell you my knowledge of computers is very basic but I'm willing to learn and try things out. I could allways backup all the files on that partition.
Please explain how I can do that. So far your sugestion seems to be the most plausible one.
Thanks
tralala

P.S. RWHITE, like you said the computer gives priority to the HD and it wont let go of C & D
 
You have to use the fdisk command in DOS to accomplish this. Please be careful with this as a mistake could cause you to lose all data on all your drives. Even if you do it correctly, you will lose all data on your current D: drive (although your C: drive should not be affected). Lastly, the following is primarily from memory, as I can't test it without screwing up my own data.

Go to the MS Dos Prompt and type in fdisk <enter>. This should take you to a menu with several choices. Start by viewing your current partition information (option 4, I think). It should tell you that you have a Primary and an Extended partition and should also tell the sizes of each.

Next you want to delete your current logical drive in the Extended partition (this is where you'll lose the data on D:). Select option 3 from the main menu, and then option 3 from the next menu (Delete Logical Drive in the Extended Partition).

After you've deleted the logical drive, go back to the main menu (escape key). Now you want to recreate the logical drives. Choose option 1 (Create Partition or Logical Drive). Then choose option 3 (Create Logical Drive(s) in the extended partiion. You should get a choice about whether to use the whole partition or just part of it. You want to just use part of it (this will become your new D: drive). You can choose how much to use in percentages or in Megabytes. Make your selection and create the logical drive.

Then go back and do it again for the rest of the partition. This time you can just select the entire rest of the extended partition (i.e., 100%). This will become your E: drive. That should do it. Keep hitting escape until you exit fdisk, and close your DOS window.

You will now need to format the D: and E: drives. (Make sure you don't format your C: drive).

I think these are the correct steps. When doing it make sure you read everything on the screens - just in case I remembered things incorrectly. It's not very hard, but it is dangerous (from a destroying data standpoint).

Good luck. When you're finished your hard drive should now show three logical drives (C:, D:, and E:, and your CD-ROM's should follow that - F:, etc.).
 
Thanks dachay2tnr!
That does not sound to difficult. First I will backup all the data and then i'll give it a go.
I'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks again
tralala
 
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