BSOD problems.

[Loony BoB]

Heating problem: It's actually BSOD'ed more often at night than day. Also, my flat has been a lot hotter than this during the summer and never had any problems. For three years running.

Dust: I cleaned out the dust in my PC a month ago.

Download: It was only 10-15 kps I've downloaded 100kps and had winamp playing fine.

Reboots: I've had my PC running for seven weeks without rebooting and had no problems - obviously, these BSOD's mean that I've never had it up for long. But I'll say again that over the past five or so days, this has been a very sudden thing, as I've not had BSOD's for probably well over a year. For this to be heating, rebooting, etc... you'd think this would have happened more often in the past three years.

Defrag might be an idea, although I do have over eight gig free on a 40 gig hard drive.

[Yamaneko]

Just reformat already. Regardless of problems or not, you're due for one.

[Loony BoB]

I will once I get a second hard drive. My CD writer is duff and Tiff can't find space on her 160GB hard drive. >=(

[MecaKane]

You could do what I do and tell winamp to buffer the entire file before playback into RAM if it's 32 MB or less, which works nicely for almost all my tracks

How would you do that?

[bipper]

Open the case first and let it run with the side panel open.

That is very oxymoronic! The processor makes a heatbubble, and with out a stream of air going through the case, the bubble will merly compress. Its strange, but its the way cases are supposed to be designed. Unless of course, your fans are dying and there is no air flow.

Like Dr. Unne said, time for a reninstall I would say. Unless you just used windows for the seldom game of solitare, then you should prollly reinstall once every six months, or a year. I find myself doing it about 7 months.
I have only reinstall linux once, and that was the cause of my own stupid ass self.

Bipper

[rubah]

I've left the sides off of my case for a few months now and havent' really noticed any difference. The fans are inclosed in a little box anyways.

[Yamaneko]

Having the side panel open lowers overall temps within the system. A lot of gamers keep their cases open when playing system-intensive games. The heatbubble you speak of should be pushed onto the heatsink and the heatsink fan should blow off the hot air, regardless if the case is open or not. Having the case open allows the hot air to dissapate into the cooler room air faster instead of having it bottled-up in the case waiting for the outake fans to push it out.

[crono_logical]

The downside of having the case open is it's easier for the components inside to collect dust

*going 2+ years on laptop's WinXP*

[bipper]

lol, good thing, cause me being the hippocrate that I am, does not have a side panel on my XP puter. I dust it everyday with my little soft air compressor, and upkeep it. The irony is it runs cooler by ten digrees, its always been a mystery to me, but whatever works I guess.

I just would really never recommend it to anyone though. As cl_out said it collects buttloads of dust and as for the tempature issue, my one puter is the only one I have seen ever run cooler with out the box. I think this is purley due to the fact I have a 2' 4" tall server case that is entirly under fanned. (It was a beast back in the day, when I actually used the space) Anyways, yeah, It just seems weird

My nix box is liquid cooled, and I would assume when I upgrade this xp box it will be as well. I had a server that ran hot, so I tried it with out the side panel on (idiot) and it fried (overheated Processor) after about 48 hours. I dunno, just dumb luck or a Micro$oft concpiracy!?

Bipper

[Loony BoB]

I don't think I could really do it in a safe manner anyway - if you checked out my room, you'd see why. My PC sits in the small space between wall and bed. The only place I could find to put it at all, really, without having it sitting in the middle of the small area there is to open drawers and walk in and out.

[Dixie]

I get BSOD's all of the time. Never trust Office 2000. Just now, I got one.

Get Windows XP. If you already have it....Oh well.

[rubah]

I haven't had a bsod since I ran win95 more than four years ago, and I didn't have them often then.

when I took the sides off my case, we did an extensive cleaning of stuff, and there must've been at least a centimeter of dust on the fans after four years of having this computer xD

and B0BxD, I don't know why, but for some reason I always imagined that your flat had no lights in it xD

[Loony BoB]

Turns out I still have a year of Coverplan left. I'm gonna get an engineer in to fix my CDRW, back up all my data, then get him to format my hard drive and all that jazz and if I still have problems, I should be able to at least get some free memory or a free hard drive out of it all.

EDIT: Backing up 10GB of music should be fun. =|

[crono_logical]

My PC ran around 20 C cooler when I had it with the case open and a large desk fan blowing directly into it

And 10 GB is nothing, BoB

[Yamaneko]

Yeah, try backing up 200+ GB worth of data. Not fun.