Topic: Unknown warning from PC alert 4

[Robotochan]

Another one of us 2000XP users   My one used to run at 65 constantly but I went to the extreme and bought a new case, system exhaust, 3 blue LED fans, a 2 40mm fan HDD cooler, a 80mm fan upgrade for my Heatsink and now I have a new fan waiting to be put in as soon as I get some stuff sorted. Now it runs about 40 - 45.

What GFX card do you have? (my GFX card raised the temperature of my CPU by 2C as it's so hot!)

Note: My bro just got home with Episodes 31 - 52 :O

[Naruto]

hmm.. I can't recall to find any options to configure the trigger to shutdown by a certain degree of celsius. But how to explain the (burning)smell then?
First I thought it was the harddisk, so I bought a harddisk cooler...but unfortunately...i was wrong..
hmm..I got a Geforce 2 deluxe videocard. The fan on the card is still running...don't know if the videocard is the cause...

[joudi]

Everytime when I'm going to play games or try to video editing, I need my external fan to keep my system running..

Hi Naruto,

     Do you play games and video while their CD is in the drive?
If so, it might be drive problem which you need to change.

[Naruto]

Hi Joudi,

Yes, I do play games while cd is in the drive, but when I'm video editing, I'm not using the cdrom.

[Naruto]

Thnq peepz for your help My problem is finally fixed. The burning smell is generated from my videocard. There wasn't enough space for the fan to blow away the air. I created some space by replacing the pci cards to other slots. Tested a few times at 100% cpu usage. It doesn't crash anymore

[Sandra]

Thanks for letting us know  
Hopefully the repeated overheating hasnt shortened your cards life too much