I think my computer is burning up...

[Rip The Jacker]

Ahhhh!!!! My computer is melting man!!!

My computer just froze like 4 times. I touched the top of my computer case, not even the insides, but the case itself, at the top in the back, it was HOT.

I opened my case up, the following were burning up:
My power supply
My video card
My sound card
My sticks of RAM
My hard drive (this was the worst, I couldnt keep my finger on my HDD for more than 10 seconds... it was just too damn hot!!!)

Argh... what should I do?

Right now I have my big fan again, now its positioned so it sucks air out from inside my PC (thanks for the tip Barbarossa ). So far it seems to be working, everything has cooled off a bit, exept for my HDD's, they are still burning up!!!

[Rip The Jacker]

Woot!

The big fan has been running at High speed for about 15 minutes (sucking the hot air out), everything is cool now!!! My temps went down, and the top of my computer is no longer burning up. Even the HDD's are cool now. So now I'm 100% sure my computer freezes because of overheating.

Now the question is... what should I do? I can't keep my case open all the time and this enormous fan running 24/7. The damn thing is all over the place....

[clocker]

There are two approaches that need to be explored in tandem to solve your problem.

1) Case airflow needs to be upgraded.
Without pics of your PC it's impossible to make specific recommendations, but somehow you have to get a good stream of air flowing in and out of the box.

2) Upgrading the heatsink/fans on your chips and cards might also help once your airflow can deal with the extra load.

It's hard to say whether your hard drives are the cause of all this heat or just suffering because of it...perhaps moving them is an option or at least, supplementing the airflow available to them can't hurt.

[Rip The Jacker]

Oh jeez.

I can't provide a picture of my case, but this is what it looks like:
It's a case, closed up. No window, no 80mm fans, no 120mm fans. Now that I think about it, there is no way that there could be airflow inside... =/

I guess I need a whole new case...

[Peerzy]

At the back does it not have a grilled area, if it does go down to a local pc shop and pickup a few case fans, you just screw it into the grilled area. Have it pulling air out of the computer if it's so hot, and don't have it with it's back to a wall or in a very inclosed space.

[clocker]

Oh jeez.
It's a case, closed up. No window, no 80mm fans, no 120mm fans. Now that I think about it, there is no way that there could be airflow inside... =/

See?
There has been a mistake and your computer came installed in a coffin.
A real case would help considerably.

[Rip The Jacker]

Ok I have another question... what is Temp3? Whenever I do something CPU heavy, Temp3 rises very quickly, and when it hits 90C, my computer freezes, every time.

Is Temp3 by any chance my HDD? I have two hard drives, a 40GB one, and a 4GB one, and because of the lack of space, both hard drives are touching eachother... right on top of each other... so they get really hot. What if I took out my 4GB hard drive... would Temp3 stay at lower temperatures?

[Peerzy]

Try it, also why even have a 4GB hard drive? Not even big enough to support 1 standard game these days, and i doubt you'd even get Windows on it very well.

[lynx]

Temp 3 is not your hdd, if the temperature was available for that it would be marked as a drive temp.

Download everest home edition, it will probably give you a better idea of what the temps actually are. Speedfan is notoriously bad at identifying which is which.

I suspect any temp that rises rapidly as you've indicated will be the CPU temp, but it could be the PWM temp if that's monitored.

[Rip The Jacker]

Temp 3 is not your hdd, if the temperature was available for that it would be marked as a drive temp.

Download everest home edition, it will probably give you a better idea of what the temps actually are. Speedfan is notoriously bad at identifying which is which.

I suspect any temp that rises rapidly as you've indicated will be the CPU temp, but it could be the PWM temp if that's monitored.

Ok, so Temp1 is CPU, and Temp2 is my Mobo... I still don't understand what Temp3 is... it's Temp3 that gets too high when my CPU usage is t 100%, so it's Temp3 that causes my computer to freeze... if I could make whatever Temp3 was to go away...