What is the latest free temp monitor

I took my cover off my computer to record the alarm sound it makes
occasionally and the alarm quit. So I guess that means it is getting
too hot.

It was a faint alarm that made about 5 beeps in a row, pause and about
5 beeps in a row again.

I guess I need a temp monitor. What do you guys use?

Metspitzer wrote:
I took my cover off my computer to record the alarm sound it makes
occasionally and the alarm quit. So I guess that means it is getting
too hot.

It was a faint alarm that made about 5 beeps in a row, pause and about
5 beeps in a row again.

I guess I need a temp monitor. What do you guys use?

(assuming windows) download speedfan.
Or check the website of your motherboard producer, they
might have a utility.
Or google for:
xp temperature
produced several free or shareware programs.

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:27:53 +0100, Sjouke Burry
wrote:

speedfan

Thanks
I downloaded it from Tucows. The license agreement said something
about causing the computer to explode. I maybe should have not
skipped over that part.

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:00:19 -0500, Metspitzer
wrote:

I took my cover off my computer to record the alarm sound it makes
occasionally and the alarm quit. So I guess that means it is getting
too hot.

It was a faint alarm that made about 5 beeps in a row, pause and about
5 beeps in a row again.

I guess I need a temp monitor. What do you guys use?

Well it looks like something is getting hot. I just wish I knew what.
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3350/0047k.jpg

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On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:00:19 -0500, Metspitzer
wrote:

I took my cover off my computer to record the alarm sound it makes
occasionally and the alarm quit. So I guess that means it is getting
too hot.

It was a faint alarm that made about 5 beeps in a row, pause and about
5 beeps in a row again.

I guess I need a temp monitor. What do you guys use?

Well it looks like something is getting hot. I just wish I knew what.
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3350/0047k.jpg

HWMonitor from cpuid.com gives better info. Scroll
down for the free version.

?http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmon...s-history.html

here's a link for hardware monitor

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On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:00:19 -0500, Metspitzer
wrote:

I took my cover off my computer to record the alarm sound it makes
occasionally and the alarm quit. So I guess that means it is getting
too hot.

It was a faint alarm that made about 5 beeps in a row, pause and about
5 beeps in a row again.

I guess I need a temp monitor. What do you guys use?

Well it looks like something is getting hot. I just wish I knew what.
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3350/0047k.jpg

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:00:19 -0500, Metspitzer
wrote:

I took my cover off my computer to record the alarm sound it makes
occasionally and the alarm quit. So I guess that means it is getting
too hot.

It was a faint alarm that made about 5 beeps in a row, pause and about
5 beeps in a row again.

I guess I need a temp monitor. What do you guys use?

I sprayed some compressed air into the CPU fan as the vents were very
clogged.

It seems to have helped a lot.

Hitting it with a hammer or blowing on it is about the only thing I
knew to do. Glad one of those worked.

Thanks everyone

On Jan 30, 12:08 am, Metspitzer wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:00:19 -0500, Metspitzer
wrote:

I took my cover off my computer to record the alarm sound it makes
occasionally and the alarm quit. So I guess that means it is getting
too hot.

It was a faint alarm that made about 5 beeps in a row, pause and about
5 beeps in a row again.

I guess I need a temp monitor. What do you guys use?

I sprayed some compressed air into the CPU fan as the vents were very
clogged.

It seems to have helped a lot.

Hitting it with a hammer or blowing on it is about the only thing I
knew to do. Glad one of those worked.

Thanks everyone

I've an old squirrel-cage fan setup (the fan is a 2" tall circular
spinning wall inside the heat wicking apparatus). Not so easy to
clean with air (have a 60gal. 220v air compressor). Tooth brush and
soft-bristle parts brush, and a bowl of alcohol, or was that
several . . . . Assuming the bearings are sealed, anyway, cleaned up
nicely and runs like a champ after well over 5 years usage on it. Not
that it's any better for the wear then or now, just an eyesore that
was turning into a rodent-sized fuzzball. My hands were stained
yellow for a day or two after the cleaning. And 52C is normal when not
"pushing" - encodes, usually, batching processing multiples of
soundtracks through normalization and whatnot. 80F ambient, which may
reach slightly over 100 during the hottest summer.

On 30/01/2011 05:00, Metspitzer wrote:
I took my cover off my computer to record the alarm sound it makes
occasionally and the alarm quit. So I guess that means it is getting
too hot.

It was a faint alarm that made about 5 beeps in a row, pause and about
5 beeps in a row again.

I guess I need a temp monitor. What do you guys use?

A newer one:

HW Monitor
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

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In article , Flasherly wrote:
On Jan 30, 12:08 am, Metspitzer wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:00:19 -0500, Metspitzer
wrote:

I took my cover off my computer to record the alarm sound it makes
occasionally and the alarm quit. So I guess that means it is getting
too hot.

It was a faint alarm that made about 5 beeps in a row, pause and about
5 beeps in a row again.

I guess I need a temp monitor. What do you guys use?

I sprayed some compressed air into the CPU fan as the vents were very
clogged.

It seems to have helped a lot.

Hitting it with a hammer or blowing on it is about the only thing I
knew to do. Glad one of those worked.

Thanks everyone

I've an old squirrel-cage fan setup (the fan is a 2" tall circular
spinning wall inside the heat wicking apparatus). Not so easy to
clean with air (have a 60gal. 220v air compressor). Tooth brush and
soft-bristle parts brush, and a bowl of alcohol, or was that
several . . . . Assuming the bearings are sealed, anyway, cleaned up
nicely and runs like a champ after well over 5 years usage on it. Not
that it's any better for the wear then or now, just an eyesore that
was turning into a rodent-sized fuzzball. My hands were stained
yellow for a day or two after the cleaning. And 52C is normal when not
"pushing" - encodes, usually, batching processing multiples of
soundtracks through normalization and whatnot. 80F ambient, which may
reach slightly over 100 during the hottest summer.
Do you smoke? That would explain the yellow tar from the fan