[BNM] Anyone familiar with SpeedFan?

[Gillian Pearce]

Blimey!
Dust the back of my fridge/freezer every 6 months or so. Now there's a
concept. Ours isn't usually moved 'til it conks out and we have to buy a new
one. About once a decade!

John's bringing home a can of compressed air from work so we'll give that a
go.

Cheers
Gillian

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:04 PM, andrew holway <andrew at moonet.co.uk> wrote:

> I cut a gurt great big hole in the top of my little shuttle system and
> bolted an 120mm orange fan over it.
>
> That fixed it.
>
> +1 for regular dustings, laptops are VERY prone to this, the little
> heat exchanger on most of them gets clogged very easily. also dust the
> back of your fridge/freezer every 6 months or so :)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Gillian Pearce <gjpcoach at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > HI Paul
> > Thanks for the offer. It is full of dust. I'll try and clean it and let
> you
> > know.
> >
> > CHeers
> > Gillian
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Paul Silver <paul at tenpastmidnight.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Gillian,
> >>
> >> Feel free to send me a screenshot of the speedfan report, though I've
> >> not used it much either. If you've got red flames I'd suggest shutting
> >> it down, opening it up and seeing if there's dust you can blow out of
> >> anything. If not, I'd look at changing the fan that blows over the
> >> processor.
> >>
> >> The heatsink over the processor on my old PC used to get filled with
> >> dust, so it needed blowing/cleaning out about once a year to keep things
> >> happily cool.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Paul
> >>
> >> On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:08:09 +0000, "Gillian Pearce"
> >> <gjpcoach at gmail.com> said:
> >> > Hi
> >> > I've been having problems with my pc freezing up and have narrowed it
> >> > down
> >> > to a probable overheating issue.
> >> >
> >> > After much research I installed SpeedFan but, sadly, as I anticipated,
> >> > I'm
> >> > not able to understand the results. Basically I end up with 2
> temperature
> >> > sources showing red flames   (which I assume is bad) but I don't
> actually
> >> > know what part of the computer these particular temperatures are
> >> > referring
> >> > to. Reading the instructions leads me none the wiser.
> >> >
> >> > Anyone know the software who can guide me as to how to find out what
> the
> >> > exact source of the overheating is?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks in advance
> >> > Gillian
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