I know I've asked about this before,...

I know what cpu and mainboard temps are in AIDA32 but what the heck is
Aux. temp? I'm asking again 'cause no one really had a good answer
for what it was before and also, my machine is starting to do weird
shit like shut down on its own. It only does it during Combat Flight
Sim and during heavy play. I've been checking the temps and normally
my cpu runs around 100-110F but it's been shooting up to as high as
166F briefly before coming down to 120-130F. Auxillary temps are
always in the 160-170F (I know, holy shit but I don't know what's
causing it,... it's never been any kind of a problem though) and
mainboard stays around the same or anywhere around 99-115F. I just
opened my machine and blasted it with those compressed air cans (sheez
they aint nothing compared to my compressor,... live in an apartment
now and compressor is at a friends for the time being). There was a
little build up around the bottom of the sink and managed to blow as
much of that out as possible. Another question, should the sink be
removed and regooped on a regular basis? Mines been clamped down
since about the same time last year. I hope these little shutdown
problems are not reminiscent of things to come, I don't have ANY money
for new parts. The wifes machine pretty much took care of that. My
machine:
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SOYO P4S 645D (Lite)
1.7 GHz cpu (not o'clocked)
512 MB DDR PC2100
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The case has 6 fans (5 X 80mm, 1 X 60mm). The 4 in front draw off the
supply directly while a side and rear fan draw off the mainboard. The
sink and cooler is a Zalman CNPS5700D-Cu which has been working pretty
good atleast up until now. Also, checked all the caps on the board
when I did the blow out and all look good with no obvious signs of
wanting to burst. I just recently reinstalled the CFS game after a C
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On 27 Oct 2003 20:17:30 -0800, LHudson DeleteThis @softhome.net (Lou) wrote:

Sorry, Lou--I'm clueless wrt the 'auxiliary' sensor. You might email
the Aida folks.

 >Another question, should the sink be
 >removed and regooped on a regular basis?

AFAIK, the answer to this varies. If you used AS3, then the answer is
no. If you used one of the standard white thermal pastes, then I'd
clean (and polish if need be) the base of the HS, clean the contact
surface of the CPU, and apply AS3 per the instructions on the site.
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.arcticsilver.com" target="_blank">www.arcticsilver.com</a>

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