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CPU Overheat warning
Hi
If I enable smart fan control in BIOS and start up Windows, the overheat warning tone sounds. It only sounds at 70C or over.
When the BIOS setup is booted, the CPU temp is around 45 to 50C idle. It never goes below 40 but that might be okay. No warning goes off, only when I boot windows, right at the boot screen. It keeps loading but just when the welcome screen should appear the computer freezes and I have to reset it.
Motherboard: ABIT VA-10
CPU: AMD Athlon 2 Ghz (K7 series)
Smart fan control: with 60% or 70% minimum speed and 40 C target temp
I'm not sure if it's really overheating since I have no way to check if the temp goes really that high. Since it freezes right away (which is an alarming thing itself) and I can't open the Core Temp monitor program or anything.
I installed Speedfan and I started playing around with the fan control. Temps do not seem to get high if I drop the fan speed lever to 60% nor does the warning go off, but the computer is idle. I'll test it under load just in a few seconds..
Do you think this might be false warning or do you think I should reapply thermal paste?
Update: This is a desktop PC
I reapplied the thermal paste but and temps got lower but that warning still sounds.
Thanks
Last edited by ish4d0w; 26 May 2015 at 13:59.