My wife calls me a little bit ago, she's in FL visiting friends, which I'm ironically supposed to be there too. Unfortunately, due to issues beyond my control, I got shafted and ended up staying home (though spending the week with my girls has been fun, now I play Mr. Mom as they head back to school tomorrow).
Anyhow, my wife calls, asks what she can do with said friends' computer as it's running like proverbial shit. One of the things attempted was running disk cleanup - which after about 20 minutes or so decided to lock up the computer. The next question on the list was "Why does the fan keep revving up like this?" and puts the phone to the computer. Well, it's obviously running hot, so I get her to download and run CoreTemp. Heh, this is good. It's a Dell box, AMD X2 4400+, idling around 50C. No big, I tell her to leave CoreTemp up and do some other stuff, then check back in about 5 minutes. High temp is now showing 70C.
Here's the fun part - how do you tell your friends that there's just about nothing you can do for them 700 miles away?
/blog.
Anyhow, my wife calls, asks what she can do with said friends' computer as it's running like proverbial shit. One of the things attempted was running disk cleanup - which after about 20 minutes or so decided to lock up the computer. The next question on the list was "Why does the fan keep revving up like this?" and puts the phone to the computer. Well, it's obviously running hot, so I get her to download and run CoreTemp. Heh, this is good. It's a Dell box, AMD X2 4400+, idling around 50C. No big, I tell her to leave CoreTemp up and do some other stuff, then check back in about 5 minutes. High temp is now showing 70C.
Here's the fun part - how do you tell your friends that there's just about nothing you can do for them 700 miles away?
/blog.