I need a temp logging software / program

[WoodButcher]

Hey guys, been awhile.

As stated I need a program that works on win7 and will log and store temp records prior to crash. I have a Lenovo I5 laptop that is shutting down on it's own and need to see if it is temp related. I opened it up partially and blew out what I could, re-applied TIM to the heatsink, checked the fan so without further dis-assembly is as good as it gets. If I could read temps after the fact it may give me some direction to look, I may be barking up the wrong tree entirely.
thanks

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I wouldn't know about how well it saves the log file at time of a crash, or that the log would cover everything up to that.

A lot of programs do the logging:

CPUID HWMonitor
HWInfo64
Aida64

I've been using HWInfo64 for a while now when I want comprehensive monitoring. It has some nifty GUI aspects, but the simply-presented real-time tables expose every monitoring sensor in the system, and it has a logging feature.

If you are having some particular problem with temperatures and stability and need to be sure that the logging file isn't lost in a crash, I cannot well advise.

 

[tracerit]

I've used a lot of them and the only one with a graph over time is Open Hardware Monitor. It's just absolutely great.

 

[WoodButcher]

Thanks Duck, tracer, got the Open Hardware Monitor working, small gadget on the desktop. In the high nineties celcius w/ no load, just the interwebs.
Can't for the life of me remember how to get into the bios. Delete ain't it, F12 maybe? Lenovo thinkpad I5

 

[WoodButcher]

F12, not much there but with these temps I'm thinking the fan is weak. Off to fleabay for parts.
Thanks again!

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Funny. I overlooked the OP's name. Been a while, Woodbutcher-bro!

 

[WoodButcher]

Yes it has amigo.
Off topic but I'm like a kid w/ ADD. Did the water cooling thing to my satisfaction then moved on.
Now it's automotive, http://www.astrosafari.com/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=17922
Big motor in a little van. Right now practicing my metalworking skills on a Jeep so I can fabricate a cowl induction hood for the van. I have a water cooled quadcore running at my recliner and this notebook in the garage. The van is a '93 OBD1 system so I use the notebook to connect and get real time info on how she's running.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Yes it has amigo.
Off topic but I'm like a kid w/ ADD. Did the water cooling thing to my satisfaction then moved on.
Now it's automotive, http://www.astrosafari.com/viewtopic.php?f=127&t=17922
Big motor in a little van. Right now practicing my metalworking skills on a Jeep so I can fabricate a cowl induction hood for the van. I have a water cooled quadcore running at my recliner and this notebook in the garage. The van is a '93 OBD1 system so I use the notebook to connect and get real time info on how she's running.

Now . . . that's smart.

I had all sorts of "big ideas" for a water-cooled system. I was fascinated by the idea of an evaporative cooler. I never took the leap, though, because I could imagine all sorts of things that would make it a burden and even a millstone around the neck.

This time around, I was going to pick a "custom-ize-able" AiO, and had almost settled on the EKWB Predator 240. Then I discovered that the EKWB only bested a Noctua D15 by about 6C and a TR LG Macho by 5C. Thought about all the possible failure points, even though I had prepared the case for a 280mm radiator. Dawned on me that simplicity was the key to "genius." So I just paid Silly-Lottery to re-lid my processor with CLU, so that my 6700K beats the Predator by 7C with the Macho.

I keep wondering if desktop systems will follow the path of the steamboat. Who knows . . .

 

[WoodButcher]

I plan to stick with the WC desktop. Smaller maybe when and if the need to upgrade arises. I broke the addiction to newest, latest, greatest in the PC arena. Got to feeling like a hamster on a treadmill.
It can be the same with cars but I tell you,
it is satisfying to blow by some kid in a lowered, winged, fart can abomination in his mother's minivan,,,
The little truck is really fun to drive.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I plan to stick with the WC desktop. Smaller maybe when and if the need to upgrade arises. I broke the addiction to newest, latest, greatest in the PC arena. Got to feeling like a hamster on a treadmill.
It can be the same with cars but I tell you,
it is satisfying to blow by some kid in a lowered, winged, fart can abomination in his mother's minivan,,,
The little truck is really fun to drive.

I can understand that. I keep my old '95 Trooper LS primed for long trips, but I also avoid leaving home or driving as much as I can. That's one trade-off on the personal indifference curves. The other, similar trade-off involves my PCs. Latest generation in the house other than my Skylake is an i5-3570K in a Z77 motherboard I built for my brother, and I got the processor for approximately half its retail Egg price -- used-unabused for 1 year -- in late 2014. The bundle included a Sabertooth-Z77 board and 4x4=16GB of Corsair, all for less than $300. So the only new system for "catch-up" purposes follows five years after my original Sandy Bridge -- which went to Moms after her C2D Wolfdale completely died.

Do I "need" a laptop? Only for long trips! But I have a nice 8-year-old Gateway E475M with Win 10. I need to remind myself to boot up and update once in a while, but it is still a useful extra for me.

 

[WoodButcher]

An interesting development,
I plugged in w/o the battery and the temps have not gone much over 65 C so I'm thinking battery or something in the charging unit.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

An interesting development,
I plugged in w/o the battery and the temps have not gone much over 65 C so I'm thinking battery or something in the charging unit.

I guess, then, the question is whether or not that's still normal for the laptop, or conversely, whether that's normal use or stress-testing. And I think your original posts answer the second question -- it's normal use. There should be information available somewhere that indicates whether the temperature is "normal."

Battery replacement could be $30 more or less -- I wouldn't know for sure but from the purchase for my old Gateway. Maybe it's a lot more.

Part of the power-management circuitry should be in the battery, or that was my untutored impression.

 

[WoodButcher]

Ordered a new 9 cell rather than 6 cell battery. I was thinking transformers and such but then realized that is on the power cord.
Laptop never see's more than 12v or whatever it is. I bought this notebook, a refurb two years ago so I guess it was due.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I just wonder about all the Mainstreamers I'd met in the course of volunteer work I did as much as ten years ago, who had jumped on the Apple notebook or similar bandwagons.

I'd played around with a homemade rig you could almost have called a laptop in 1984 because it was in Grandma's overnight suitcase. It ran off a battery assembly. That experience made me reticent about laptop technology, or enough to simply put off buying one. A friend told me about my Gateway E475M as corporate-IT surplus sold through outfits like AscendTech.

That one is an old C2D Centrino. I replaced the SODIMM RAM with an 8GB kit and put an MX100 SSD in it. Upgraded the wireless to Wireless N -- the Intel replacement card cost me $8.

Eventually, you have to replace the battery-pack. There are remanufactured batteries available from reputable sources. You just wonder how long they'll be available for an older laptop.

 

[WoodButcher]

It's not all that hard to rebuild a laptop battery. Locate the correct replacement cells and solder them up. I think the hard part would be to open the plastic casing w/o destroying it so that it can be reused. My battery pack is a 6 cell it is called and I'll lay odds they are six "AA" cells.
I've seen an 18V Dewalt split open and it was a handful of "C" cells soldered together.