Showing posts with label digital thermal sensor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital thermal sensor. Show all posts

Saturday, February 19, 2011

What Causes Overheating In PCs Or Laptops

Most lastest computers or laptops have built-in Digital Thermal Sensor to protect the devices from overheating that may causes damages on computer hardware. You can use any computer's temperature monitoring tool such as CoreTemp to monitor your computer's temperature and identify if your computer is experiencing overheating problem.


What are the causes of Overheating in PCs or Laptops?

There could be many reasons for overheating of a computer system. One of them is the computer has been used for long time without shutting down for cooling. When the computer is used for long time, the processor is heated. If the computer is placed at a room or office with hot environment, the long usage and hot environment may cause the computer to heat up until its temperature reach the maximum temperature limit before it being shutdown automatically. Therefore, if you plan to run a computer for long hours, providing a proper cooling system, cooling environment and running internal fan are essential to prevent computer from overheating.

The surrounding temperature affects the computer’s internal temperature. If we run a computer in hot environment, the computers temperature will definite goes high. For this reason you must control the temperature of the environment. You can use Air conditioners to get rid of this problem. If the Air conditioner is not possible then at least remove the casing of the computer and provide external fan to through the air into computer.

Some time the fault in processor or in mother board is the cause of this problem. In this situation the repairing or replacement of the faulty device is required.

How To Monitor Your PC Or Laptop Temperature

Is your computer shutting down frequently without any notice? Most often, it happens after your leave your computer running for a while, and it just shut down without any message. One of the root courses of this symptom is your PC or Lapter is experiencing high temperature until it hits the the max allowable temperature. The computer will be automatically shutdown to protect the PC from overheating.

So, if you PC is experiencing the symptom of shutting down suddenly and frequently, most probably it is caused by high temperature. One way to confirm the issue it is to measure the temperature of PC or Laptop.

You don't to install a thermometer at your PC or laptop. One of the best ways to monitor is to install temperature reading software that might help you actually know if the problem is causing by overheating. Coretemp is a tiny application which is low on resources and is surprisingly accurate in providing the PC or laptop temperature in real-time. It works by communicating with the built-in digital thermal sensor (DTS) on latest Intel and AMD processors.



It is a tiny but extremely powerful and accurate program which tells you the temperature of each core simultaneously and can be easily installed on Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. Coretemp can be download at http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/.


In the above example, CoreTemp reads the temperatue on Duo Core Intel PC. Tj Max is the maximum allowable temperature. If any of core temperature hit Tj Max, the computer will be shutdown automatically to pretect the PC from overheating. The above example, the Cores are measured at 69 deg. C to 70 deg. C, showing that this PC is experiencing an overheating issue.

 
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