System keeps freezing not sure what to do

tgbyhn10111 · 4 Jun 2007 at 03:53

My system has been going slow then speeding up a for some time. I though it was spyware or a dodgy MS patch or something like that but now I think it's heat related.

The PC really is pumping out some heat, but I don't know which bit is going wrong and not sure if any of this stuff has heat sensors. It's a medion system not a home build.

I turned on Smart HDD in the bios and installed HDD temperature and it reports the HDD a seagate 120GB ST3120023A as runnig at 49degrees, is this normal? for a 7200 rpm drive?

I put a second drive into the machine 2 days ago, which I have now removed. the machine started going slow even though the CPU performance in task manager was like 10-20% or less which I couldn't understand at first.

The drive must have tipped it over the heat threshold as I started to get graphics corruption and tonight I noticed only one of my ram sticks was not being reported so it looks like heat was causing thing to start to give out.

Need some advice on how to sort this out. I assume the extra heat could be from the cpu, hard disk or faulty power supply but which? Any software I could try to see if the board has sensors?

System is socket 478 2.6 P4
Seagate 120GB ST3120023A
Medion Radeon 9600TX graphics card (MSI Ms-8906)
Medion MD5000 (msi-6701) SIS 648,963
2x512MB DDR333
16Xdvdrom
16xwriter

Nothing is overclocked and overheating happens while surfing or doing something just as untaxing.

Anything I can check?

Thanks

hp7909 · 4 Jun 2007 at 04:54

tgbyhn10111 said:
{snip}Any software I could try to see if the board has sensors?{snip}

Speedfan (here)

tgbyhn10111 · 4 Jun 2007 at 10:58

hp7909 said:
Speedfan (here)

Thanks

Hard disc is reported to be 47degrees

Fan rpm speeds are reported as 0 so I assume that means that they can not be monitored / changed. Would this be different if I put a better HS / fan on the cpu?

Is there a program I can use to stress test the cpu and or the hard drive on it's own to try and see which component is causing the problem? I was thinking about prime for the cpu, can I use that - never used it.

I have 4 temps reported:

Temp1: 52degrees
Temp2: 38degrees
HDD: 47degrees (started at 42 after reeboot)
Temp1: 44degrees

Is the HDD temp normal or too high? It has gone up to 49degrees.

vcore:1.52v
+3.3:3.36V
+5V: 5.08V
+12V: 11.98V
-12V:-11.95
-5V:-5.05V
+5VSB: 5.56V
VBat 3.10V

Any tricks I can try to reduce the heat like spacing cards out, removing dust...anything

Thanks

Pete

tgbyhn10111 · 4 Jun 2007 at 13:03

I have been running Prime95 for 15 mins and the system seems to have stabalized at:

temp1: 66 pretty sure this is the cpu
temp2: 53
HDD: 49
temp1: 44

Are these reasonable temperatures for a socket 478 P4 2.6Ghz?

Thanks

Pete

hp7909 · 4 Jun 2007 at 14:50

HDD temps are quite high. Recommend you run S.M.A.R.T. analysis on drive using SpeedFan (4th tab on main program window). More info here

tgbyhn10111 · 4 Jun 2007 at 15:19

Idle temps are:

temp1: 50
temp2: 37
HDD: 48
temp1: 44

Just been doing a defrag and prime95 and got the hard disk up to 55degrees, cpu wouldn't go above 66.

As far as I can tell the hdd looks OK from this.

Attribute Current Raw Overall
Raw Read Error Rate 56 223986807 Good
Spin Up Time 100 0 Very good
Start/Stop Count 100 606 Very good
Reallocated Sector Count 100 0 Very good
Seek Error Rate 87 573112790 Very good
Power On Hours Count 84 14807 Good
Spin Retry Count 100 0 Very good
Power Cycle Count 96 4232 Normal
Hardware ECC Recovered 56 223986807 Good
Current Pending Sector 100 0 Very good
Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count 100 0 Very good
Ultra DMA CRC Error Rate 200 0 Very good
Write Error Rate 100 0 Very good
TA Increase Count 100 0 Very good