Over a couple of days I have silenced my computer, throwing the book at it and then some bucks. Fans, foam, the lot.
Then, just to make sure, I have been keeping an eye on the temperature on the CPU for a few days to see if it was OK. It was running cool at no more than 35 °C. Just excellent so far
Then it dawned on me : Why am I concerned about an (today) almost worthless PIII 650MHz, when I have some DSP's running that are a lot more expensive ?
Right, forward the temperature-probe and check :
It went straight to 52 °C !!!
The manual tells about the max operating temperature being 55°C ! My boards have allways been functioning close to flawless, but the lifetime may have been shortened by this.
I removed the PCI covers beneath both my boards, and the temp went down to 40°C.
Now I have begun to experiment with some extra fans blowing onto the boards, and the temp will not go beyond 32°C.
Since most of you may have similar problems, (see this link http://planetz.ghostwheel.com/forums/vi ... &forum=1&9 ) I think you better look into this in your setup.
I have an Aopen HX-08 cabinet, not exactly what you would call a shoddy box I guess.
The summerheat (on these shores at least) does not exactly help either !
Hope you save your little babies in time
Cheers
Stubbe