In his words:. The version that I am using is 1. Clicking on the Storage Devices icon and then double clicking on a hard drive's name provides a lot of information about the drive. Here is a partial view of the information available about the drives on my PC:. One of the bits of data shown is the temperature of the drive.
However, this information is static, and is not updated unless you have a look at some other hardware and then come back into the Storage Devices information. Setting alert and log options or accessing full information about each drive can be done at any time through its icon in the system tray. To do that, right-click the HDD Health icon located in the system tray:. The Options popup window and specifically its Alert options tab looks like this after you tick the "Enable critical temperature notification" box :.
You can set the critical temperature to whatever level you regard as appropriate. However a critical temperature cannot be specified separately for each drive and the one level is used for all drives. I unticked the enable attributes change alert box because otherwise I get get annoying whistles whenever what I regard as inconsequential changes to drive performance occur.
This widow will then be displayed:. The temperature of one drive at a time can be seen by clicking on the drive's icon in the top panel. This information is updated regularly in the background by HDD Health, which will then update the temperature shown in the above display if it is open on your desktop. By "Showing HDD health" you are able to check the temperature of any drive whenever you like. After installing the latest version of HDD Health recently it did not function correctly.
However I am certain that the download process was faulty. I redownloaded and reinstalled and it works fine now. For monitoring hard drive temperatures there is a smaller, less complex and very user friendly freeware application called HDD Thermometer referred to as HDDT below. Loading HDDT at startup or after Windows is loaded displays temperatures for each hard drive separately as unobtrusive coloured numbers in the system tray. Unlike HDD Health, for which you can't display the temperature in the system tray.
The display looks like this the drive temperatures are 42 C and 38 C :. Moving the mouse pointer over either of the numbers pops up information about the drive names and which temperature applies to which drive.
HDDT is a great little application. If all you are interested in is monitoring the temperature of your hard drives then it is the application that I would recommend. You can see the temperatures of each drive in the system tray and in addition, if the warning or critical temperature is reached, you will get a visual and auditory notification. Finally, here is a very comprehensive freeware application for monitoring just about anything you would ever need to monitor: Motherboard Monitor 5 referred to below as "MBM5".
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Microsoft bids farewell to Windows 8-era brightness and volume indicators in the latest It is absolutely unlike the smooth Northwood performance fall we saw. Note also the difference in threshold between a normal operating temperature and throttling start.
Thus, we can state that since the fan stop, Prescott reaches a first emergency situation a whole minute earlier than Northwood. On the whole, the performance curve can still be called smooth, but the fluctuation amplitude is much bigger than in the case with Northwood.
Here we would like to explain a frequent use of words denoting imprecision, such as "approximately", "around", "about" and the likes. The thing is that there's no sense in showing all the screenshots, as they are all similar. We only choose one, the most typical screenshot. And value intervals given in the article come as a result of the repeatedly conducted experiment.
The fan is turned on. The first difference from Northwood is that nothing at all happens within 4 to 5 seconds. On the diagram, the return to a normal functioning looks as saw-toothed as the throttling start compare it to a smooth Northwood curve. The left part of the graph reflects the first 30 seconds after the fan was turned on. It is clearly seen that even after performance has stabilized, the graph continues to have rather long jags now and then.
This fluctuation goes on for about 2 minutes. Throttling is over and the operating temperature is approximately the same as it was with the fan on. Conclusions Now let us sum up the results of our experiments. Evidently, particular values of time intervals and temperatures measured can hardly be applied to any system. However, the mechanism of throttling functioning and throttling patterns have been experimentally established and confirmed.
The hypothesis that throttling can prevent any system in any circumstances from shutdown didn't bear the test. At standard rate of performance loss about 50 percent , throttling is not enough to prevent a CPU overheating which leads to an automatic shutdown. On the other hand, now that we know the temperature threshold we can focus on measures that wouldn't let temperatures reach it.
It can be efficient ventilation, case coolers, more aggressive throttling options in BIOS Setup, etc. It proved very difficult - if possible at all - to burn a Pentium 4 CPU by stopping the cooler. Of course, providing the heatsink with thermal grease is correctly installed.
Sorry, you must verify to complete this action. Please click the verification link in your email. You may re-send via your profile. My first post in this forum! I'm developing a Delphi 7 application used in a machine for inspecting food. We use a standard computer that uses an Intel Pentium 4 2.
We have had a few reports that in very hot factories or where cooling has not been applied correctly the computer overheats.
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