PC Temp. Program?

[Hatz]

Hey everyone, this is the second time I have had to write this damn post because my computer did it to me again. Recently my computer has been randomly restarting or even freezing up so I have to restart it manually. I have gotten rid of the spyware and searched for a virus but got nothing.

I would just like to monitor my cpu, vid card, HD temps. Is there a program for this? Also I know it could be my Power Supply but I think its still good.........Its a 450watt so I know I have more then enough juice.

Any other suggestions on what it could be?

Thanks

Hatz

[The village idiot]

Many of the newer computers offer the software on the driver disk. If that is not your case, I can't help much because I have never had to buy any. You can get some different hardware devices to monitor case temp, and change the case fan speed. Heat sinks for cpu's are pretty cheap.

CompUSA has some of the case temp monitors, thatwould let you know if you are in danger. Also the Bios should have a temp monitor, when it dies, and you reboot, just go into the bios real quick and check the CPU temp. Not real accurate, but it would give you a rough idea.

[808smokey]

Soft sandra 2004 will tell you everything you want to know and it's free here's the link Soft Sandra

[Craig Tucker]

motherboard monitor is a good free program that will give readouts of the sensors built into your MB. Generally CPU temp, case temp fan 1,2,3 speed. If you want things like hard drive temps you would need to purchase extra sensors, as don't think any hard drives come with built in temp sensors.

[VCDHunter]

Recently my computer has been randomly restarting or even freezing up so I have to restart it manually.

What do you mean by freezing up ? Does it just completely lock up ?

My PC was doing this recently and I eventually bought a better PSU for it. But now my second PC has started it - just completely locks up and I have to restart the damm thing.

[rallynavvie]

motherboard monitor is a good free program that will give readouts of the sensors built into your MB. Generally CPU temp, case temp fan 1,2,3 speed. If you want things like hard drive temps you would need to purchase extra sensors, as don't think any hard drives come with built in temp sensors.

I'll echo the vote for MBM, it's pretty straightforward and I think it allows you to have temps displayed in your system tray. Some motherboard manufacturers have their own versions (like mine doesn't work with MBM but works with its own version) though not always included on a driver disk.

The latest hard drives do in fact have temp sensors onboard. There's a term for this feature but can't recall it. A friend has MBM and also monitors his HDD temps, though I dunno if it's built-in to the latest version of MBM or if he had another app watching those.

I picked up a DigitalDoc5 and placed all the temp probes in places to keep an eye on my temps at all times via the front of my case; arranging the wiring is a huge PITA but it's totally worth it in the end. It has 8 temp sensors. I've got 5 IDE hard drives in my case and 2 15k rpm SCSI drives but don't keep track of all of them. This is how handy that tool is:
1. Ambient air sensor on the outside of the case in front of the intake fans.
2. Airflow past the main HDD cage to see how much the 2x 200GB and 2x SCSI disks are heating up the intake air.
3+4. One under each CPU to keep track of those.
5. On the GPU to monitor my VGA temp.
6. At the top of the inside of the case to see how well the PSU is moving air out.
7. Attached to my primary (boot) drive since that sees most of the action.
8. Near the exhaust fans for the case to see what temps the CPU heatsinks are expelling.

A lot of good info, and alarms that you can set if something gets too high. It can also control fans off/on so that if something reaches a certain temp it'll turn its fan on (I have the set for the aux PSU fan and the HDD cooler on my boot drive).

[Hatz]

Ok my computer is really annoying me now.

This morning it kept on freezing up / or restarting like I said before.
One time it even restarted and when the motherboard beeps to indicate a good boot or not all I got was one long continuous beep. I had to restart my computer again.

One interesting thing I found is that my CPU which is a AMD Athlon XP2100+ (should be 1.7ghz) is now running at 1300mhz. Both the software and my bios reported it as 1300mhz.

Anyone come across this problem before? What could it be. I look at my heatsink to see if it was really hot but it wasn't. I then continued to remove the heat sink to feel the cpu itself but it wasnt hot. I did notice my Artic Silver was all rubbed off so I put more on but my CPU is still at 1300mhz.

What should I do? My computer isn't restarting or freezing up anymore so that is good. Now my only problem is that I don't have all my CPU speed and my internet seems really sluggish.

Please Help

Hatz

[Hatz]

Well just figured it out. Seems somehow my bios got set back to 100/33 instead of 133/33.

Everything seems to be working good now. Thanks for all the help and the programs you guys showed me to.

I appreciate it.

Hatz

[The village idiot]

Maybe it is time for a new back up battery? Or could just be a fluke.

[rallynavvie]

A friend has an Asus A7N8X and had that same thing happen to him. After setting something in the BIOS everything was fine. The whole error happened after power went out while he was booting up. May just be a wierd issue with Asus boards?