heat generation inside cf-18

I'm in Darwin for a month for work and brought up my CF-18 system from Adelaide. It's working fine (and the RAM problem has gone - seems to have triggered a new patch from Microsoft after the fault reports got sent off).

The back-left corner of the main system unit is getting very hot to touch and I'm wondering if that's due to the current being pulled through the USB port to power the Huawei e169 USB 3G modem. The modem itself gets quite hot so I would think it's drawing a hefty current out of the USB hardware in the system itself.

Does this gel with other people's experiences with the 18's? If I hold my fingertip on the metalwork of the system casing at the top left corner of the case it starts to hurt after about 15 seconds or so. I don't have the A/C on in the room and the ambient temp is about 33 C outside with quite high humidity (it is sub-tropical here!).

Craig.

 

Did you check the CPU usage? Mine gets very hot quickly when it's working hard. In idle state there is hardly any heat generated. Maybe some spyware or other process is using a lot of cpu?

 

Could be firefox itself then - pulling up Task Manager shows that firefox is using 34 percent of CPU time.

Not surprising as it's the most resource-hoggy application other than Windows itself. lol

But otherwise there isn't much happening.

Craig.

 

You could try a freeware program called "MobileMeter" to check your cpu temperature at certain load. Its an old application (2004, version 0.3.1.0 is best) for showing HDD temperature and CPU temperature on the desktop by a graph. Mine gets around 40 degrees Celsius at idle and around 65 Celsius at full throttle. Ambient temperature is around 20C over here.

I can image that yours will be much hotter due to the sub-tropical climate. I wish it was that hot over here for a couple of days!...

 

There are few coz by it if it is not coz by a system software. One is loose connection, not totally in contact to where it supposed to be.



ohlip

 

Now, you know I love you Teo, but WHAT? What the heck did you just try to say here??!!!

 

Doobi

Teo posted at 8 in the morning
My friends that call me at that time in the morning say that I don’t make much sense that early either lol

Alex

 

I think it must be a "Canadia thing, eh"

 

LOL was that english? Anyways I still get the point though, something is not seated properly touching the frame or something its not supposed to, in turn conducting heat

 

For me as an not english speaker it is easy to understand . He means an "cold soldered connection". U should have a look here: http://www.expertvillage.com/video/4915_electronic-circuits-solder-connections.htm and here: http://www.tangible-technology.com/articles/joint_update.html

 

Sorry! guys, Lol for a confu..sion. Its the dreaded 404. I typed too long and ended up like few words when I hit the post reply. I copied and paste and as said ended up like that.

Anyway, it expalained by onirak...post. Its like an electrical circuitry. If you have a loose connection for example on the outlet. If you plug an instrument or appliances. This outlet become hot even the conductor and tendency to create spark or fire. Hope it clear out.

ohlip