Serious problems with PC, help needed...

P Bo · 4 Oct 2006 at 16:28

If I anyone can help/advise me I'd be eternally grateful.

I have a PC that was built for me by a friend at work (dont have any contact though now) about two years ago. It's a AMD Athlon XP Barton. I'm pretty sure it was either 2800 or 3200. I can't remember. A gig of ram and a 240g HDD (well it's two 120 HDDs but the guy said it was some thing where it's reads faster)

Now I've noticed in control panel system, it says it's 1.10 ghz. I've noticed my CPU goes to 100% pretty quick these days, just uses Azureus, winamp and Firefox.

Here are links of device manager and Everest CPU reader.

Also the temps Everest reads are

Voltage: CPU CORE - 1.8
Cooling fan cpu - 2.7
WD HDD temp - 32
CPU - 44
Mobo - 35

A person on another forum told me this is really hot and probably melting my CPU and HDD. All my fans work fine. I usually leave my PC on 24/7 and turn it off once a week for a few days if I'm away.

I use this PC as a recording studio and I'm worried about it's stability. I'm mainly a mac guy so not really comfortable tinkering with my PC but will if I have to.

I also read on another PC test that my CPU maximum clock was 3000

Any help would be great..

Oh and this is my first post. Hopefully my future posts won't be so negative!!

P Bo · 4 Oct 2006 at 16:55

I got a can of compressed air from ****** earlier (£10!) and blown a ton of dust off everything. Excluding my gfx card I have 4 fans in my case I think.

Here is a CPU- Z reading. This means nothing to me, hopefully someone can understand what speed it was stock and then help me adjust it!

No one has messed with the BIOS. I don't even know how to. I think the only thing I did about 9 months ago was diable my onboard soundcard as I use an audio interface (yet it still shows in control panel with a cross)

So those temps are OK? what about my hard drive temp? This was just after I turned my PC on. I'm worried about leaving my PC on at night now incase it bursts into flames! Thanks for the help!

P Bo · 4 Oct 2006 at 18:49

How do I do that? And how do I tell what my stock CPU speed is?

Also, are those temps too hot? I dont want my PC to blow up.

P Bo · 4 Oct 2006 at 20:18

Hmm, 2500 makes more sense. That would be equivalent to 1800 right?

I remember reading somewhere it's maxium clock was 3000. That was with a report by Everest.

Will look through the Wiki. Wiki always amazes and contains thing I'd never have thought of!

Do you think those temps are ok? Or maybe I should get some more fans? I could do with some quieter fans actually. When I had my PC off last night and was using my powerbook it felt kind of strange without the noise.

Thanks again for the help. I almost bought a new CPU and Mobo today

P Bo · 4 Oct 2006 at 21:59

I'm pretty sure I remember the numbers 3200 and 2400 too. There must be someway to tell for certain. Is there a number to look for on the CPU? a code or something?