Protect Your Computer from Overheating
Heat, especially excessive heat is not your friend. When the thermometer goes up and up, the extreme heat affects everything – people can have heat stroke, dry vegetation catches on fire, lakes dry up, and electronic devices break down (even the iPhone 3G S). It is as simple as the beads of sweat on your forehead – when your temperature rises to extremes, you can get brain damage; when your computer’s temperature goes to extremes, its hardware components may get fried.
It is thus important that you know how to protect your computer from overheating. Here are a few simple steps that you can take to reach this goal.
Step 1. You clean the dust from your desk and your furniture don’t you? Every know and again you will have to clean the dust that gets inside your computer. You can just blow it away, but I find that a vacuum cleaner does a better job. It gets in those hard to reach places and you don’t end up with a room full of dust.
The reason why you have to remove dust from electronic components is quite simple: dust acts like an insulator and consequently it traps heat in.
Step 2. Check to see your computer’s cooling fans are working properly. In time cooling fans can break down –some don’t work as well as they used to, others break down altogether. The reason why those cooling fans were installed was to keep your computer, drum rolls please, cool. If they do not function properly, they cannot adequately cool down your hardware.
Step 3. You know what they say in the real-estate business: location, location, location. The same goes for your computer. You need to place it in a well ventilated area. Don’t push the case all the way up to the wall as this may block the cooling fan, which is not advisable. Do not place the computer in direct sunlight.
Step 4. Do not overcloack unless you know what you are doing. You may end up damaging your processor.
Tips and warnings
If a hardware component constantly overheats despite the fact that you took all precautions to prevent this, it may mean that component is defective.
Tags: Computer, Heat, Overheating
It is thus important that you know how to protect your computer from overheating. Here are a few simple steps that you can take to reach this goal.
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Step 1. You clean the dust from your desk and your furniture don’t you? Every know and again you will have to clean the dust that gets inside your computer. You can just blow it away, but I find that a vacuum cleaner does a better job. It gets in those hard to reach places and you don’t end up with a room full of dust.
The reason why you have to remove dust from electronic components is quite simple: dust acts like an insulator and consequently it traps heat in.
Step 2. Check to see your computer’s cooling fans are working properly. In time cooling fans can break down –some don’t work as well as they used to, others break down altogether. The reason why those cooling fans were installed was to keep your computer, drum rolls please, cool. If they do not function properly, they cannot adequately cool down your hardware.
Step 3. You know what they say in the real-estate business: location, location, location. The same goes for your computer. You need to place it in a well ventilated area. Don’t push the case all the way up to the wall as this may block the cooling fan, which is not advisable. Do not place the computer in direct sunlight.
Step 4. Do not overcloack unless you know what you are doing. You may end up damaging your processor.
Tips and warnings
If a hardware component constantly overheats despite the fact that you took all precautions to prevent this, it may mean that component is defective.
Tags: Computer, Heat, Overheating
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