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With regard to the alarm:
You can't turn an alarm off because of the nature of an alarm - it is there
to warn about a certain situation (overheating), so until the temperature
drops below the alarm threshold, it will keep beeping. In your eyes, the
alarm constantly beeping is a problem, but it is not the 'real' problem -
the CPU is too hot and is likely to fry and need replacing - that is the
problem. The alarm is your friend!!
If your house's smoke alarm starts beeping due to a fire + smoke, you don't
want the option of turning off the alarm just because, "OK, I know there is
a fire, so I'll deal with it in a minute"!!!
Fix the problem in hardware:
Have a look at QuietPC.com or similar. You could get a zalman cooler or
something similar for your processor. A large passive (no fan) heatsink for
your motherboard chipset. A new quiet cooler for your graphics card and a
new power unit.. These run much quieter than the standard cooling options
(some are silent). I have just done all this in my computer and taken it
from 9 noisy fans to 3 quiet ones and it is actually cooler than before! For
the first time in about 3 years, I heard the hard disk 'rattel + click' the
other day, so I have now swapped my hard disk out to a less used PC and am
now using the quiet Spinpoint drive from my other PC. The only noise I have
in the case is the occasional audible hard disk 'rattle + click' and the
large fan blowing above my CPU, but I have that on an adjustable speed
resistor thingy!
Fix the problem with software:
Another option you could investigate is software cooling. This sounds
rediculous, but you can get software that sends a signal that turns off the
processor for the few clock cycles where is it not required. This makes a
massive difference to temperature. I imagine that when you are capturing
sound, the processor is not working flat out, so if it were momenterally
turned off between busy spells, then the temperature would not rise!! I use
CPUIdle (search for it on google) and the temperature drops from about 55
degrees when under load to about 45 degrees in 2-3 seconds, then continues
down to mid 30s after a minute or so.
Change the alarm:
A third option is to turn off the alarm in your BIOS and install a
temperature monitor (with alarm) in windows. This way the high temperature
will be reported by controllable software! I have a Soltek motherboard and
there is a hardware monitor downloadable from their website - you should
investigate this option.
Or...
The final option is do nothing and just buy a new processor soon because the
one you have been running hot for ages will stop working!
"John" <duki@dafi.com> wrote in message
news:clcmk0d2ih9rqqf6qcn5qv0lj6lcml0l6o@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:47:17 GMT, A strange species called Wes Newell
> <w.newell@TAKEOUTverizon.net> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:49:45 +0100, John wrote:
>>
>>> So the answer is no. Its just a bit annoying when I have to turn the
>>> fan up and wait for 5 minutes before it has cooled down before the
>>> alarm goes off. I usually have to reboot, that's why I was asking.
>>>
>>I don't know or care what you're trying to accomplish by setting the alarm
>>low, but if you want to turn it off and on while running, simply install
>>an on/off toggle switch in the speaker wires.
>
> How do you do that?
>
> I am not setting the alarm level low or even touching that. I am just
> altering the speed of the fan which is what effects the cooling.
> Sometimes I need it to be as low as possible without heating the cpu
> up to much, as I do recordings with a microphone and want as little
> noise as possible. Other times I am running a lot of progs and I am
> also in the middle of an online gaming session I have to terminate to
> reboot and get rid of the alarm, because if I wait 5 minutes and more
> for the increase fan speed to cool down the cpu, I would become deaf
> from the noise and/or smash my computer up
🙂
>
> I did actually have another fan in the side of my computer as well but
> that started making too much noise (as I have a dust problem) and even
> after opening my system and cleaning all the fans, that particular one
> had had it.
>
> Thanks for everyones help.
>
> John
>
>
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