{"id":692,"date":"2010-01-14T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=692"},"modified":"2010-01-14T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T17:33:10","slug":"if-it-walks-talks-smells-and-looks-like-a-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"If it walks, talks, smells, and looks like a duck&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new &#8216;puter had been giving me bit of grief the last couple of days. It would lock up completely, or just shut itself down and refuse to restart for a while and all sorts of other crazy stuff. All the symptoms would normally have made me suspect that the CPU was overheating, but I ruled that out based on the fact that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the motherboard is meant to have a temperature sensor on it that beeps if there is an overheat;<\/li>\n<li>the desktop temperature gauges didn&#8217;t show any temps high;<\/li>\n<li>the CPU heatsink wasn&#8217;t feeling hot at all;<\/li>\n<li>there was no hot, burning smell coming from the inside of the box!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I tried all sorts of other things to narrow down what else it could be. Taking bits out, changing all sorts of settings etc, etc, etc&#8230; No luck. Still freezing now and then.<\/p>\n<p>Today I finally gave in and took the whole motherboard out and prepared to replace it with another lower spec spare. Just before I put the other one in, I noticed that one of the CPU fan corner clips wasn&#8217;t fully locked down. Clicked that properly into place, put everything back in the case and connected everything up, and voila! So far today it&#8217;s been a nice, stable machine again. Fingers crossed, but it looks like it&#8217;s all fixed now. So it&#8217;s entirely likely that it was a CPU overheat issue after all!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img alt=\"duck.jpg\" id=\"image691\" src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/duck.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>For a hint at the moral of the story, see the post title!<\/p>\n<p>I have to say though that I am absolutely amazed that the box is still functioning at all! Only a couple of years ago if the heatsink was as loose as this one was today then there would be lots of smoke and burning smells coming from the case. It&#8217;s happened to me twice before. Indeed it&#8217;s how I managed to come by the need to get a new PC this time around. Modern CPUs and motherboards are obviously just incredible! I won&#8217;t be trying to push them too hard just to see what they can take though&#8230; Stable is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new &#8216;puter had been giving me bit of grief the last couple of days. It would lock up completely, or just shut itself down and refuse to restart for a while and all sorts of other crazy stuff. All the symptoms would normally have made me suspect that the CPU was overheating, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}