PC "overheating" problem

[Patrik]

Hello I have a 6 year old PC that has a foxconn motherboard which has a built in temp. protection (it cuts off power when temperature hits like 50°C which i think is way too low to be dangerous) so my PC shuts down after about 10 minutes of playing a game, even tho i have a huge ROOM cooling fan blowing through the case and my ambient temparature is about 23°C. Is there a way i can disable the temp. protection or just increase the °C point of shutting off? My CPU is intel dual core 2 duo E8400 3ghz, GPU nvidia geforce 8800gt. Hope someone can answer and i would be very happy if the soulution was free or at least cheap. Thank you!

[Tea1337]

If it's built into the motherboard you can find it and de-solder it? I don't think there is a way to be able to disable it unless it's software, or in the BIOS.

[flibberdipper]

Is the heatsink dusty? And you might need to replace the thermal paste.

[Cubit481]

Hello I have a 6 year old PC that has a foxconn motherboard which has a built in temp. protection (it cuts off power when temperature hits like 50°C which i think is way too low to be dangerous) so my PC shuts down after about 10 minutes of playing a game, even tho i have a huge ROOM cooling fan blowing through the case and my ambient temparature is about 23°C. Is there a way i can disable the temp. protection or just increase the °C point of shutting off? My CPU is intel dual core 2 duo E8400 3ghz, GPU nvidia geforce 8800gt. Hope someone can answer and i would be very happy if the soulution was free or at least cheap. Thank you!

Welcome to the Forum... u can probably take out the heat sink and change the thermal paste on the cpu...also clean the heat sink..that might bring some temp down...

[tobben]

are you sure it's only hitting 50*c? might possibly just be looking at the wrong temp or use faulty software? never heard of a pc that shuts down because it hits 50*c, the problem might lie elsewhere.

[Patrik]

well i don't know if it's on the motherboard or the software...it just says on the box that it cuts off power if the temp is to "high". I was thinking about bios and looking in it but didn't find anything which could be there to disable or enable it..i did find some weird abbreviations of the words (i hope that's how you say it) and i didn't know what they ment but i didn't want to put it on disable because i was scared that i would mess something up. And if it's on the motherboard itself, then i don't know how it looks like so i'm screwed eather way. I was trying to find how to do it on google for a long time but never found anything about this protection... also tmcclelland455 i will replace the thermal paste and see if that helps thanks.

[Patrik]

Toben yes i'm sure because in summer it actually shuts off only if i'm on the desktop because i have like 26°C in the room and i was staring at speedfan program and "core 0" got to 52 and it shut off. it's been doing that for ever i'm freaking out

[FizzyFantom]

Have you tried installing FoxOne, Foxconns MB management software? It may be on the driver CD for your board, and if you can get it to work it probably has fan settings and the shutoff temp setting in there. You should check what the temps are with other monitoring software such as HWMonitor, RealTemp or HHWiNFO32.

[Patrik]

FizzyFantom i'm trying to download FoxOne right now and i'm on foxconn website but there are some things i don't know how to fill in to select the right one. product and platform i know but then socket, chipset, and models, i do not know what to pick. How do i find out? http://www.foxconnsupport.com/download.aspx?models=en-us0000488&category=C000000001&brand=en-us0000001&Series=en-us0000013&chipset=en-us0000154&keywords=&sort=

[Patrik]

OK so i'm quoting the box here:
"FOX CENTRAL CONTROL UNIT
Complete protection for your CPU and system; automaticly cuts off power if the CPU temparature rises too high"

 

I do remember that there is a fox central control unit in bios but then i'm not sure what to disable

[FizzyFantom]

FizzyFantom i'm trying to download FoxOne right now and i'm on foxconn website but there are some things i don't know how to fill in to select the right one. product and platform i know but then socket, chipset, and models, i do not know what to pick. How do i find out? http://www.foxconnsupport.com/download.aspx?models=en-us0000488&category=C000000001&brand=en-us0000001&Series=en-us0000013&chipset=en-us0000154&keywords=&sort=

Under "FIle Download" click "Utilities", click "Motherboard Utility: FOX ONE", then click the floppy icon to download.

Edit: Sorry, you can find your socket, chipset and MB model in CPU-Z:

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html#directiontouse

http://www.cpuid.com/medias/images/en/softwares-cpuz-03.jpg

[Patrik]

Under "FIle Download" click "Utilities", click "Motherboard Utility: FOX ONE", then click the floppy icon to download.

Edit: Sorry, you can find your socket, chipset and MB model in CPU-Z:

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html#directiontouse

http://www.cpuid.com/medias/images/en/softwares-cpuz-03.jpg

Alright so i got all the info and downloaded fox one. In it there is a tab "limit setting" i went in there and my temp right now is 35°C (because i'm not doing anything stresfull) but then it says that the limit is 90°C. I think i'm going to prove it wrong now. I will run a stress test and monitor the temp. The last time i did a stress test my computer overheated in like half a minute lol. So this time when it freezes i will see what the foxone temp meter says and i will come back to you. by the way thank you for all the help so far.

[Patrik]

Ok i'm back. i launched the stress test and had the fox one program right beside it. in 6 minutes the cpu temperature rose from 35°C to 46°C and at that point the pc shut off. What is going on?... also that time when i used speedfan there was CPU temp, core 0, and so on... core 0 was always about 10°C higher than CPU and all other things which were at about 40°C aswell like GPU and stuff. so i would assume that it's that core 0 thing but what is it? i thought it was some kind of a part of CPU? i'm just super confused.

[FizzyFantom]

Ok i'm back. i launched the stress test and had the fox one program right beside it. in 6 minutes the cpu temperature rose from 35°C to 46°C and at that point the pc shut off. What is going on?... also that time when i used speedfan there was CPU temp, core 0, and so on... core 0 was always about 10°C higher than CPU and all other things which were at about 40°C aswell like GPU and stuff. so i would assume that it's that core 0 thing but what is it? i thought it was some kind of a part of CPU? i'm just super confused.

Maybe its the case that if any of the cores go above 50 degrees it shuts off, but that seems like far too low a temperature. Can you turn off shutdown temperature in the BIOS?

[FizzyFantom]

In the BIOS go to "PC Health Status". Can you change the "Warning Temperature" or the "Shutdown Temperature"? If you can check if it makes a difference.

[Patrik]

Ok so i just went to bios and there wasn't PC health status but there was a hardware health configure which i guessed was the same so i chose it and this is how it looked:
FAN 1 mode setting [auto fan by RPM]
temperature 1 limit of hig [070]
temperature 1 limit of sec [040]
temperature 1 limit of thi [030]
temperature 1 limit of low [020]
(under this there were some fan speeds which some time back i put all to max but it didn't help probably because it used more power and heated more so i put it back to automatic.)
(under fan speeds there was a cpu temp which was 35°C like before in idle and sys temp at 30°C)
So if i understand the high limit is set to 70°C so why did my PC shut down on 46? hope it made sense to you because it sure didn't to me.

[FizzyFantom]

Ok so i just went to bios and there wasn't PC health status but there was a hardware health configure which i guessed was the same so i chose it and this is how it looked:

FAN 1 mode setting [auto fan by RPM]

temperature 1 limit of hig [070]

temperature 1 limit of sec [040]

temperature 1 limit of thi [030]

temperature 1 limit of low [020]

(under this there were some fan speeds which some time back i put all to max but it didn't help probably because it used more power and heated more so i put it back to automatic.)

(under fan speeds there was a cpu temp which was 35°C like before in idle and sys temp at 30°C)

So if i understand the high limit is set to 70°C so why did my PC shut down on 46? hope it made sense to you because it sure didn't to me.

Very strange. Can you change the temp limits in there? The BIOS I'm looking at is clearly very different from yours, so may not be of any help. Sorry I can't help you more than that. Good luck.

[Patrik]

Yes i can change them. What should i set them to?

[FizzyFantom]

Yes i can change them. What should i set them to?

I don't know...

It would appear that they are already high enough, but maybe you need to set the "temperature 1 limit of sec" higher than 40.

Edit: It appears that these are actually settings for fan speed at different temperatures and it is likely that the shut down temperature is elsewhere.

[Patrik]

OK i will try that. Thank you so much for your time and help i really appreciate it bye