Re: Windows Live Mail has gone feral!

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Qu0ll wrote:

My Vista Ultimate laptop's CPU temperature sits normally at around 45C but
now whenever I run Windows Live Mail it will shoot up over 90C and then
forcibly shut the machine down! No other program has this effect and in all
other respects things are running normally.

What could be causing this? How can I fix it? I have had the motherboard
replaced, the heat sinks and the graphics card and I still have the problem.
The machine has been cleared of all dust and has plenty of free space around
it for ventilation. It has only started happening recently and, as I said,
it is only caused by Windows Live Mail.

That your CPU is getting overheated is NOT a problem of 100% CPU usage.
Yes, heat will go up but the cooling system should still keep the CPU
within its operating range for temperature. You have a fan that isn't
spinning fast enough or isn't getting sped up with increased
temperature, the heatsink fell off the CPU, it is extremely dusty inside
(dust is a thermal insulator, not thermal conductor) and blocking the
fins in the heatsink or generating severe turbulence for airflow across
the blades of fans.

Something is wrong with your hardware so fix that first. The CPU should
never go outside its operating range for temperature no matter how busy
it is. There are even burn-in tests, like running Prime95, that are to
deliberately test a host to ensure no problems with it. They will
deliberately attempt to heat up every component within your host to
ensure all components run at the highest temperature and that all
components are getting properly cooled.

Cooling won't work if there isn't enough intake for air, if cables
(especially flat ones) block the airflow through the case, if thermal
compound wasn't used on the heatsinks or they aren't properly seated
(i.e., flat against the heatsink and component face), if the intake or
exhaust ports for airflow are blocked (by dust, cables, hair, paper, or
whatever). Running games, Prime95, or anything else that maximizes
computation resources to produce the most heat should overheat your
system. If the physical setup doesn't provide sufficient cooling, don't
expect software to compensate.
.

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