Recent content by ajhearne

Seems that the fan was blocked making it appear to be a quiet machine and everything cleared; not impressed but oh well. Hopefully some day get better machine

Taken back to engineer, he will see if it can quieten down, seems to think way it was sold, because of the paste the fan was not working as it should have - he will see options if I can get quiet fan. Am I right to key in small factor pc, intel i5 quiet fan on google?

are you talking value in HWMonitor or the Min or Max, for max, core 0 42 degrees, core 2 46 degrees, for min 36 core 0 core 2 40 It made noise when booted up like a hisling noise think it was the fan, now the noise is constant, like a vaccum cleaner. Overall performance of machine much better...

thanks - between 36 degrees and 38 on core #0 and between 39 degrees and 43 on core #2

Ok thanks - only I have noticed the fan is running continuously now whereas before it only happened when I turned on the machine. Is this what you would expect?

Machine back now. It seems that the extra RAM supplied was faulty to begin with and was not enough thermal paste - anyone think I should do a not as described with Ebay, got it August 2017 - is it too late?

Not sure. It was refurbished on Ebay - not impressed - but least it is fixed

the engineer fixed it a) no thermal paste was found on heat sink b) one of the RAM sticks was having the problem as well Thanks to all who suggested

Seems old CMOS battery power outage low so least that replaced; hope engineer can fix other matter. before windows boots up what do the numbers mean on side near function key options to go to set up and boot menu options in MS Dos? where the manufacturers logo appears when first turn on.?

Yes cleared dust etc - now with an engineer to see if it can be fixed. Will let you know what outcome is. Thank you for trying to help.

Tried a different mains adaptor has got to 184 thousand files temp on core 2 8 degrees lower

I ran HWMonitor in windows along side scan - it got to 125 thousand files and temperature said 67 degrees and then it turned itself off

Norton was installed after the problem started to happen. It's now doing full scan in normal mode; 170 thousand files in, been on 30 mins or so; and not crashed - with new battery in. The time did not automatically change with the internet with the old battery.

Quick scan machine stayed on and found no viruses - it's been on 2 1/2 hours today not turned off. Still thought try with the present battery in If a full scan is attempted machine turns itself off. Opened case; the two bronze cables - I think the processors, seem warm/mod hot when touched.

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