Put the duct back on, it supplies cooling for the cpu.

i know the green duct allows the cpu fan to draw air through the heatsink, but i reversed the direction of the cpu fan so it is now an intake fan , there is not room in the case for another intake fan and it's to thick to cut through so this was the only way i could think of to get proper air circulation in my case.and the duct was trapping hot air in and around the cpu heatsink.

You have yet to provide even a scintilla of information as to why you have a "CPU cooling problem".

What you've got is a PC tower with a user fan fascination tinkering problem.

I just got a refurbed 8300 about two weeks ago. About 4 days ago when I booted up, the message was that the previous shutdown was due to a thernal event (it wasn't, I shut down normally) I hit F1 and went on my merry way. About an hour ago the machine just went dark on me. I tried rebooting but the HD wouldn't even spin up. I just shut it down and left the case open for a while. When it was cooler I restarted and everything seems fine.

I know it isn't though. I've been looking for a CPU/motherboard tempertaure monitoring utility but have had no luck. In Motherboard Monitor (v.5.3), the 8300 isn't supported (all sensors are stuck at 32 F and voltage levels are 0v) and the Intel Active Monitor just won't load. Those are the only two I've found so far. 

I'm assuming that the case and fans are adequately engineered for the 8300 so I shouldn't have to bugger with any extra fans or monster heatsinks.

Anyone else have this problem? Did you find a monitoring SW package that works? Thanks for any help.

 

Not sure if the 8300 has temp sensors, but MBM5.3 works no my XPS. What MB did you chose when you set it up.

I am looking for a way to get the VIDEO card tempature, anyone know of a program for that, ATI card.

Anyways, you should make sure the fans are turnning and moving air, if they are not then replace them. Also check the Video card and see if it has a fan if it dose check it. If it don't have a fan check how hot the chips are with your hand while it is running or kust after you turn it off, it should not be to hot if you are lust at idle and not running a game or something. If everything looks OK then you have a real problem, hope it is just a fan and that the chip is not bad. If you do take it apart get some good thermal grease and use it when you put it back together.

Good Luck

Just on a whim, could you download and install the latest mbm5 version 5.3.6.0 and select the motherboard as XPS WHL. Then let me know what the results are.

 

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@Day03 wrote:

The dell motherboard does not have any temp sensors so no program will work.

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Eau Contraire. If it has no temperature sensors, how would it shut down in response to a "Thermal Event"? If it had no temperature sensors, how would the fan know when to speed up? The thing is, the motherboards do have temperature sensors, it's simply a matter of finding out how to read them that's the problem.

Message Edited by CatoftheNight on 03-07-2004 06:50 PM

Unless you've installed your 8300 in the bowels of hades, there's no way it should be shutting down due to temperature overheating unless  a) the cpu/chassis fan is stopped/dead, or b) the heatsink is not seated/clipped flush to the chip itself, or c) unless you have a flawed cpu and/or motherboard.

I'd get on the horn to Dell immediately.

Did that...nothing. I tried all of the Dell configs (that are supported) and nothing from any of them. It does grab the CPU speed but that's it.