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Joseph <syscon780 <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> I went to pickup the remote box and look at it; the CPU fan stop |
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> working. The CPU heat sink is big so in idle mode |
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> it could keep up with cooling it but under heavy |
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> load "compiling anything" the CPU was overheating. |
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Dust is often the culprit on Computers. Just pull the side cover |
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and blow it out with an air compressor, once a year or so. Dust build up |
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and also dampen the heat transfer rate (cooling effect) on all sorts of |
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parts. So cleaning out the dust allows things to run cool, keeps moving |
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parts clean and will extend the life of your hardware. This is particularly |
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acute with the sort of fine dust that builds up inside of computers.... |
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Blowing compressed air on fans make them often "over speed" so be mindful |
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to only blow on the fans in short bursts. Clean the fans in the power supply |
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likewise. |
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hth, |
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James |
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