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Originally Posted by steevie.h
First of all thanks heaps for the advice everyone and pls bear with me im a bit of a noob!
i double checked CPU temp on HWMonitor and these were my results:
It seems the CPU is indeed overheating im going to get some of that paste and probably a new CPU fan.
Now that we've established that the PC is overheating, is that why im getting random reboots? i turned off auto restart and instead of reboots im now getting BSOD, three today already >_>
it reads "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down.....
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"
does that seem like something you'd get due to an overheating PC?
Thanks again for all the help! |
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Originally Posted by steevie.h
oh yeah and when you's say TIM is that the paste?
and the fan is sometimes squealing loud but that's probably b/c of the lack of thermal paste and it having to over compensate, not a prob with fan itself right?
and HWMonitor says my HDD1 is 56 not 70 like speedfan is 56 an acceptable temp?
thanks a lot ppl
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TIM (Thermal Interface Material) is a paste that is applied between the footprint of the heatsink and the thermal spreader of the CPU (visible outer casing).
TIM is vital in the transferance of heat from one mass to another as it fills the microscopic voids that exist between the 2 surfaces. On a side note, is possible to run without TIM (i.e. TheInformationators test with a Big Typhoon) but that is with
lapped surfaces. Nevertheless it is rare to operate without TIM.
Another factor to consider is your ambient temperature, this is the temperature of the environment that the system is running in (room temp). If you live in a warm climate with no AC then you are at a disadvantage as you will be reliant on the weather.
Knowing what the ambient temperature will be helpful to determine if your system is running too far out of expected tolerances insofar as the ambient temp only, but is not the deciding factor. Do you know what your ambient is?
Your HDD is kinda warm at 56C as the
general guideline is 5C ~ 55C. A HDD cooler or placement of an intake fan in front of the HDD will help with that issue.
IRQ error: IRQL is an acronym for Interrupt Request Level, a process wherein a system device (i.e video/sound card) requests cycles from the CPU. Additionally this error can be also be caused by bad or mismatched RAM kits, or a corrupt or bad Virtual Memory page file.... there are probably more potential causes... overheating being one of them.
You are already on the way to eliminating the heat factor. You may also want to test your RAM using
Memtest.
^that is where I would start.
