You can buy a can of compressed air from a computer store, office store or hobby shop. Use the straw attachment, point it right at the cooling intakes and see if you're getting a lot of dust coming out.
So, trying to pick up an used Laptop PC on the cheap. Mostly to play my favorite CIV4 mod (well, technically mod mod mod mod mod mod) with friends, but it'd be nice if i could get it to run XCOM2 on minimal settings when that comes out (I have no illusions that I can hope for anything more than that).
Pro: Has a Video Card, decent specs (i5)
Con: Not a very good video card, from what little I know (though any card at all on a laptop under 800 USD is a minor miracle), more expensive at 375 USD
Pro: higher specs, surprisingly. (i7) Cheaper at 250 USD. Bunch of expensive adobe products pre-installed.
Con: "upgraded" parts, meaning it's probably been used/worn more, I don't have actual use for that Adobe software.
My new laptop HDD seems to have overheating problem.
This is specifics of my HDD, copied directly from speccy:
WDC WD10JPVX-00JC3T0 ATA Device
Manufacturer Western Digital
Heads 16
Cylinders 121,601
Tracks 31,008,255
Sectors 1,953,520,065
SATA type SATA-III 6.0Gb/s
Device type Fixed
ATA Standard ACS2
Serial Number WD-WXS1EC4HR00K
Firmware Version Number 01.01A01
LBA Size 48-bit LBA
Power On Count 6 times
Power On Time 0.3 days
Speed 5400 RPM
Features S.M.A.R.T., APM, NCQ
Max. Transfer Mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s
Used Transfer Mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s
Interface SATA
Capacity 931 GB
Real size 1,000,204,886,016 bytes
RAID Type None
S.M.A.R.T
Status Good
Temperature 58 °C
Temperature Range Bad (greater than 55 °C)
S.M.A.R.T attributes
Partition 0
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #0
Disk Letter C:
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number E4DB6F61
Size 443 GB
Used Space 84 GB (19%)
Free Space 358 GB (81%)
Partition 1
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #1
Disk Letter D:
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number 0CE7F504
Size 488 GB
Used Space 113 GB (23%)
Free Space 374 GB (77%)
Temperature usually starts at 35 Celcius, and continued to climb up until 60 Celcius, while idle.
My new laptop HDD seems to have overheating problem.
This is specifics of my HDD, copied directly from speccy:
WDC WD10JPVX-00JC3T0 ATA Device
Manufacturer Western Digital
Heads 16
Cylinders 121,601
Tracks 31,008,255
Sectors 1,953,520,065
SATA type SATA-III 6.0Gb/s
Device type Fixed
ATA Standard ACS2
Serial Number WD-WXS1EC4HR00K
Firmware Version Number 01.01A01
LBA Size 48-bit LBA
Power On Count 6 times
Power On Time 0.3 days
Speed 5400 RPM
Features S.M.A.R.T., APM, NCQ
Max. Transfer Mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s
Used Transfer Mode SATA III 6.0Gb/s
Interface SATA
Capacity 931 GB
Real size 1,000,204,886,016 bytes
RAID Type None
S.M.A.R.T
Status Good
Temperature 58 °C
Temperature Range Bad (greater than 55 °C)
S.M.A.R.T attributes
Partition 0
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #0
Disk Letter C:
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number E4DB6F61
Size 443 GB
Used Space 84 GB (19%)
Free Space 358 GB (81%)
Partition 1
Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #1
Disk Letter D:
File System NTFS
Volume Serial Number 0CE7F504
Size 488 GB
Used Space 113 GB (23%)
Free Space 374 GB (77%)
Temperature usually starts at 35 Celcius, and continued to climb up until 60 Celcius, while idle.
60 C is quite bot for a hard drive, are you sure it's not writing constantly? Check the disk activity in the task manager (Win 8/10) or in the Resources Monitor (Win 7).
60 C is quite bot for a hard drive, are you sure it's not writing constantly? Check the disk activity in the task manager (Win 8/10) or in the Resources Monitor (Win 7).
By the way, what unit is it? If you're taking about System I/O Reads and Writes and they are constantly (as in every few seconds or less) incrementing to a higher number, that's probably abnormal.
By the way, what unit is it? If you're taking about System I/O Reads and Writes and they are constantly (as in every few seconds or less) incrementing to a higher number, that's probably abnormal.
What I want to know is how much data is written or read on your disk when your computer is idling because since your other temps are fairly normal, a high temp on you hard drive is more likely to be due to the drive being constantly solicited rather than cooling issues.
Can you screenshot the task manager on the performance tab with the "hot" drive selected like on my previous post? Or failing that the resource monitor like in the example just below.
Also, 52 C is much more normal for a hard drive than 60 C.
What I want to know is how much data is written or read on your disk when your computer is idling because since your other temps are fairly normal, a high temp on you hard drive is more likely to be due to the drive being constantly solicited rather than cooling issues.
Can you screenshot the task manager on the performance tab with the "hot" drive selected like on my previous post? Or failing that the resource monitor like in the example just below.
Also, 52 C is much more normal for a hard drive than 60 C.
Basically, you have to track down if a program is constantly writing or reading the disk and deactivate it to see if your temperatures improve. Try with Avast first.
Also, I notice that you have avguard.exe in your list of programs, that's Avira Antivirus. As a general rule, it's a bad idea to have two anti-viruses running concurrently.
Basically, you have to track down if a program is constantly writing or reading the disk and deactivate it to see if your temperatures improve. Try with Avast first.
Also, I notice that you have avguard.exe in your list of programs, that's Avira Antivirus. As a general rule, it's a bad idea to have two anti-viruses running concurrently.
Just to be sure you should run a full system scan with your antivirus*, another one with Malwarebytes Anti-malware to see if you have some crapware soliciting your drive.
Just to be sure you should run a full system scan with your antivirus*, another one with Malwarebytes Anti-malware to see if you have some crapware soliciting your drive.
This is not an advice to do without an antivirus, what happened is that either Avast or Avira, or the conflict between the two of them made them access your hard drive much more often than they should have.
I'm getting the "windows detected a hard disk problem" reports on my data disk. The strange thing is, when I ran a chkdsk, the checkdisk came up clean. "This disk has no problems and is ready to use."
There is also a message in the windows action center that says "Solve a problem with your hard disk controller: Your hard-disk controller isn't working properly because a compatible driver is not available for this version of Windows."
I'm wondering if the message is caused by the hard disk controller, or if the drive is about to implode and I need to backup ASAP.
Upgraded to Win10 (now that I'm noticing the problems, I'm regretting it).
On Firefox, Chrome, AND Edge I'm having these issues:
Alert dropdown doesn't appear, it just loads for half a minute than gives up
Very rarely can I reply to somebody, loads for awhile and gives up like the other issue
Sometimes the textbox appears when I use the "more options" or create a thread, but sometimes it doesn't
EDIT: and it took me several tries to get the textbox to edit this post
Some other weird shit occurs. Sometimes a page won't load, so I hit the back/forward buttons and it loads right away. Sometimes that doesn't work. I can't seem to upload any images/post threads on 4chan (perhaps for the better). Steam had trouble connecting a couple restarts ago, but connected fine this time.
This OS would be good if it wasn't such a buggy fucking mess.
If my network drivers are borked, where would I go to fix that?
For the network drivers go to your laptop/desktop/motherboard manufacturer's website if it's an onboard ethernet or wireless adapter, and the card manufacturer if it's a card you installed yourself. If your network driver is sad, that could be causing the weirdness with the forums (the alert dropdown gets mad at me when I'm on mobile sometimes).
