Computers Ar' US
By Editor (06/16/08)
I built a new power computer some months ago and after several total disasters it was actually running pretty good this morning... Then I suddenly lost my Hard Drive. It seems the Hard Drive is very very sensitive to the ambient temperature.
This new box is an AMD 2800+ with 3GB of ram running W2K.
Our household is set to keep the temperature at ~83F degrees in the summer, it seems I raised the limit to 84 degrees this morning and my Seagate HD promptly decided to go to sleep...
Everest 4.50 now reports the drive now running at ~40C (104F) and it now works. It seems a couple of more degrees is not acceptable.
The motherboard seems to be at ~32C (84F) and the CPU and GPU kinda happy.
I opened up the front end of the computer case and pointed the trusty floor fan at it and all seems to be well.
As I write this the temperatures continue to drift a few degrees lower....
If I set the house temperature much lower than 83F, I would be basically bankrupted, the temperature out on the porch is now 110F. That's pretty normal for The Valley Of The Sun in the early summer.
We would have no issue with the house temperature being set to some ~90F, but obviously running our computers would be impossible.
When I see folks talking about having their summer house set to 72F, I see wimps that have no clue about anything...
We set our house in winter to ~78F, again any higher setting would invite bankruptcy. The desert gets pretty cool in the winter months.
Wow after all this time to compose this piece, my computer seems to still be running.
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