Complicated Mind

In Yahoo! 360º I often get a message “Is your blast collecting dust?” My blast is not collecting dust! But my PC’s heatsink is collecting dust. It makes my CPU heat until 80-100 Celcius degree. Whew! The problem occured when my PC always shutdown by itself. I thought it was caused by a virus. But finnaly I checked on the BIOS and the CPU heat is about 85. At first, i thought it was normal, because i don’t know the usual CPU heat. So I start googling. I was suprised because people said that the normal CPU heat supposed to be at 40 degree and the highest is 78 degree. Then I ask my friend via YM what could cause the overheat. He said that the thermal paste between the heatsink and the processor is not tight enough. So I was hopeless because I must bring my PC to the Computer Shop to re-thermal paste it. Still curios, I unplugged all the cords in the back of the PC and look inside it. I found that the CPU fan is dusty, and the heatsink is covered with thick dust. So I cleaned it up because I thought the heat is blocked by the dust. After clening it up, I turn my PC back on and check the BIOS. The CPU heat is at 52 degree. So that was the problem ) Before this, my PC is using an FC-PGA (using slot 1), so the CPU fan is rarely get covered by dust. But now I use socket 775. The placement of the processor is likely to get covered by dust instead of the slot 1. So I must clean it up regularly. Duh… more work :p

FC-PGA Processor.


LGA775 Processor

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Today, my PC’s power supply is broke down. As usual, if there are some problem with my PC, I always get stress. Then I ask Yogi to accompany me to Mangga Dua Mall. Fortunately, he’s going to Gambir to buy a ticket for his brother-in-law. In Mangga Dua Mall, the shop where I bought my PC is closed, so we look around for a power supply. We found some power supply, which is not cheap. Then we found a shop, that sold PC’s accessories that I never saw before. Then we ask for power supply, and the price was so expensive. But then after a long talk, I finally decide to buy a power supply in that shop (not the expensive one). They say the power supply that I bought is a very good power supply, the brand is ‘HEC’. And it cost me about 260 thousands rupiah for the 300w power supply. Well I hope they’re right that the power supply that I bought is a very good one. And now, my PC is running well again. And luckily there’s no other hardware are breakdown because of the power supply failure.

At last, I can have my own notebook. It’s a NEC Versa M540. And I got cable connection now. Two great things at the same time :p I’ll tell you more about the notebook later, after I fully tested it.

This is the picture of the notebook: