The other day, I fettled my Windoze 98 box such that I could play Starcraft on it again. That was good. Today, Starcraft abruptly exited a couple of times. looking at the BIOS health check screens showed that the CPU was at the warning temperature (80C), and that the "system fan" was reporting 0 rpm. The "System temp", however, was at a more sensible 32C.
I opened the case; the side was warm to the touch. The inside was hot - the 3 hdds were slightly painful to touch, and the PSU felt warm. All the fans (one on PSU, one on CPU, one bottom-front of case) were working, except the fan on the mboard (Northbridge, I think), which I've replaced once before, and was stopped. I can probably go to a Maplins and get another fan, and botch the connector again, but that doesn't seem likely to do much about the other bits getting hot.
Beyond vacuuming the dust out of the CPU heatsink, what can/should I do to keep this machine running cooler? I've got the side off it at the moment, and the CPU seems to be running at 63C or so (it's just sat in BIOS, though not doing anything much). It's just a Starcraft machine, and fairly elderly, so I don't want to spend lots of money, but I would like it working again!
I opened the case; the side was warm to the touch. The inside was hot - the 3 hdds were slightly painful to touch, and the PSU felt warm. All the fans (one on PSU, one on CPU, one bottom-front of case) were working, except the fan on the mboard (Northbridge, I think), which I've replaced once before, and was stopped. I can probably go to a Maplins and get another fan, and botch the connector again, but that doesn't seem likely to do much about the other bits getting hot.
Beyond vacuuming the dust out of the CPU heatsink, what can/should I do to keep this machine running cooler? I've got the side off it at the moment, and the CPU seems to be running at 63C or so (it's just sat in BIOS, though not doing anything much). It's just a Starcraft machine, and fairly elderly, so I don't want to spend lots of money, but I would like it working again!
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