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#1 bunkerbuster1

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Posted 05 April 2011 - 04:40 PM

Hi all,

This problem has been occurring on and off for a few months now. Sometimes when I boot up my PC (Vista OS) the CPU fan starts whirring and seems to be running at full tilt. Sometimes the PC even switches itself off after displaying a brief message relating to the fan. Usually after this happens I reboot the PC and the fan is perfect???? Can anybody please help me with this.

Thanks a million,

Bunks

This post has been edited by hamluis: 05 April 2011 - 06:23 PM
Reason for edit: Moved from Vista to Internal Hardware.

#2 killerx525

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Posted 06 April 2011 - 01:37 AM

It could be overheating. Please a take a screenshot of HW Monitor and post it in the next reply.

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System: CPU- AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Oc'ed to 3.8GHz, CPU Cooler- Noctua NH-D14, RAM- G.Skill Ripjaws X F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL 8G Kit(4Gx2) DDR3 1600, HDD- Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATAIII, GPU- Asus EAH6950 1GB Crossfire Oc'ed 900/1310mhz, MB- Gigabyte 990FXA-D3, Case- Coolermaster HAF 932, PSU- Corsair TX-750 V2, Soundcard- Realtek High Definition Audio Sound, OS- Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit

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Posted 06 April 2011 - 02:15 AM

What is the make and model of this computer?

Is it cold in the room when you start the computer?

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Posted 07 April 2011 - 04:18 AM

On my Acer the fan exit cooler was completely clogged with dust and hair fan would run all the time CPU very hot all the time.

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Posted 09 April 2011 - 10:48 AM

Purchase some canned air and blow out the vents. If it is as badly impacted with dust as you described you may need to have a repair person open the case and blow it out. If you are comfortable with attempting this yourself, you probably can find instructions online to open the case. Since you didn't provide the model number of this Acer I can assist you in that respect.