Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop

From	VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.hardware
Subject	Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop
Date	2017-02-11 00:58 -0600
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R2D4 wrote:

> On 02/10/2017 05:19 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
>> R2D4 wrote:
>>
>>> VanguardLH wrote:
>>>
>>>> R2D4 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You sure the cause is not also the cause of your taskbar freeze problem
>>>> that you posted about over in alt.comp.os.windows-10?
>>>
>>> That wasn't me, no taskbar problems that I know of.
>>
>> Oops, different mishmash nym.  Sorry.
>>
>>>> When was the last time you dusted out the inside of your unidentified
>>>> computer?  Dust, lint, and pet hair are thermal insulators.  You need to
>>>> get out the dust, especially from the heat sinks.  In the 5 years that
>>>> you owned the desktop, have you ever dusted it out?
>>>
>>> Yes I have.  Believe it or not, I've actually used an electric leaf
>>> blower with the PC case opened outdoors to dust them.
>>
>> That won't provide the focus you need to blow the dust out from between
>> the fins of a heatsink.  I could throw a stick of dynamite onto the top
>> of my backyard but the blast won't get rid of the moles under the soil.
>>
> 
> I took the desktop outside and used the canned air covering all the 
> areas discussed here.  So far, so good.  I'm trying to keep a careful 
> watch on voltages and temps, especially when I start up programs and 
> videos.  Just have to wait and see if it does it again.  Thanks for you 
> and others help here.

If the mobo didn't come with software to monitor temperatures, you could
use Speedfan.  Although it is handy for regulating the speed of fans (to
keep them slow and quiet when the load is low but rev them up when temps
exceeded configured thresholds), it also tells you what are the
temperatures of the CPU, GPU, case, and perhaps other sensors.  It has a
chart that lets you see how RPMs or temperatures have fluctuated but
it's not for a very long window.  Something else would be needed to keep
a running log of monitored temps to see when they got high (but you'd
have to remember what you were doing at the time, like playing a video
game or processing videos).

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sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop R2D4 <r2d4@stwars.com> - 2017-02-10 11:34 -0500
  Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop "Rodney Pont" <mlist4@infohit.me.uk> - 2017-02-10 17:23 +0000
    Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop R2D4 <r2d4@stwars.com> - 2017-02-10 12:35 -0500
  Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2017-02-10 14:35 -0600
    Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop R2D4 <r2d4@stwars.com> - 2017-02-10 15:56 -0500
      Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2017-02-10 16:19 -0600
        Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop R2D4 <r2d4@stwars.com> - 2017-02-10 22:07 -0500
          Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2017-02-11 00:58 -0600

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