OT - Computer Issues (aka "blue screen of death") - Page 2

Baron Munchausen · #1 March 31st, 2005, 12:05 AM

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Renegade 13 said:
On a side note (sorry Turin!) what is a safe range for CPU and hard drive temperatures?

This depends on the CPU. Most AMD CPUs are rated for pretty high temperatures. 90 Celcius or so (about 190 Fahrenheit!) But people try to keep them much lower out of simple prudence. Running an AMD Athlon at 40 to 50 Celcius is considered 'ok' in most power user circles.

I don't know if any hard drives are equipped with temperature sensors. They definitely can overheat, but I don't think it's an urgent enough issue to be followed like CPU temperature is.

Instar · #2 March 31st, 2005, 12:13 AM

Well, without looking, my first reaction is to say to update BIOS, then all lower level drivers. (video, anything on the motherboard)
Other than that, I'd say get rid of WinMe. WinXP is much nicer. Heck, even Win2k is better than WinMe.

Atrocities · #3 March 31st, 2005, 01:01 AM

I had a simular thing happen to my blue box 2k machine. I called in one of the two customer service things you get with windows (2 free tech support help calls and then you pay).

They helped me to reload a previous good load of the system and all was fine until the HD Failed.

Renegade 13 · #4 March 31st, 2005, 02:36 AM

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Baron Munchausen said:

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Renegade 13 said:
On a side note (sorry Turin!) what is a safe range for CPU and hard drive temperatures?

I don't know if any hard drives are equipped with temperature sensors. They definitely can overheat, but I don't think it's an urgent enough issue to be followed like CPU temperature is.

Well hard drive temperatures can be urgent... Where I live, in the summer it's always dusty. My hard drive is equipped with a temperature sensor, and one day when I checked it, it said the hard drive had a temperature of over 200 degree Fahrenheit! Cleaned out the fan system of the half-inch of dust that was coating everything, checked again after allowing time to cool, and the temperature dropped to 76F. I'm betting that if the hard drive was running at over 200 degrees for very long, it could have easily resulted in a failure.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #5 March 31st, 2005, 08:34 AM

IIRC Windows ME was simply the most terrible bugridden Windows ever..... IIRC the bugs from both 98 AND XP combined into one fantastic little moronic system.

El_Phil · #6 March 31st, 2005, 09:59 AM

I think ME was the most hardware dependent in terms of bugs.

For instance I had one system which refused point blank to even install. Got a new system and not having my copy of 98SE around decided to chuck ME at it and it worked like a dream with far less problems than I'd had with the 98SE system. Strange really

TurinTurambar · #7 March 31st, 2005, 11:41 AM

I've had ME on this machine since 01. Have never had a major crash, even through major hardware changes.

But minor crashes like this one yesterday.... countless. And the annoying thing is I end up fixing them and never really find out what the actual problem was. "Oh, look, I have apparently fixed it."

It seems that removing a certain amount of stuff from startup, reseating the vid and RAM, and whatever other 5hit I did in cleaning out the registry has got it up and running. Whatever.

Thanks to all who took the time to post. I honestly believe this is the friendliest community I've ever been a part of. Online AND OFFLINE, with the exception of maybe my church.

May-Your-Suns-Shine-Forever,
Turin