Move to Scotland. No chance of anything overheating here, but you might have to chip the ice away from the thing before you can use it. Seriously, try external cooling or checking if the internal fans are working properly.
Will
> Is anyone an expert on this? I got a new computer in 2006
> and it's a black hard-drive. I keep it on the bottom of
> the desk, because it would take up too much room on the
> top. Anyway, it crashed in the summer once. I had no idea
> why until I opened the hard-drive and saw that it was
> filled with dust. Seriously, it was like one of those
> Disney movies, Disney's Old Crone in "Snow White and the
> Seven Dwarfs" in her lab in the dungeons. LMAO. Anyway,
> ever since, I've been told to watch my computer temp.
>
> Apparently, the highest number it can go (on mine) is
> 68.0C (or more) before the computer crashes. I'm on 51.8C
> and I have no idea why. I've vacuumed the floor twice,
> blown all the dust out of the hard-drive, taken the lids
> off, given it breathing space, checked my CPU and nothing
> seems to be overloading on the Task Manager. After the hot
> days, it just seems to be gradually rising over a period
> of time. The highest it got in summer was 46.0C and it's
> been rising ever since. Not fast, just gradual. Anyway,
> it's really annoying and I want it to stop.
>
> Ideally, I want the temperature to be at 29.0-32.0C. How
> would I do this?
>
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