Cold / Freezeing PCs

[volf]

Ill make this short and sweet :

We have a loft conversion, which houses 3 PCs and a whole host of parts and such. The network, the WiFi. My PC is in my bedroom which is always between 15c and 21c. The PC it self is normaly running at a tosty 26c with no problems.

With the weather as it is and the loft being so drafty, its v-e-r-y cold up there. Dads PC, is in the loft. So when I get a shout with "My PC wont turn on" I come up the stairs to hear the sound of a Hard Drive squeeling its nuts off. Pull the plug on it all...

Is this the cold weather which is causeing these boot problems? (Or maybe its becase he built it by scratch and its never been a good runner... ever)

[empsburna]

The much prefer cold conditions.

I was worried it was the kit I sold you!

[volf]

The much prefer cold conditions.

I was worried it was the kit I sold you!

I havnt put it all together yet mate, Doing that this weekend.

[Martyn-620Ti]

condensation will kill the pc. if its too cold then heats up you'll get damp. be carefull.

[-Alex-]

Above is true, and PC's in theory should benefit from colder conditions.

We have PCs on the ships on the bridge and storerooms; a few of the ships have been frozen to their berths for weeks (St Petersburg and one later at Bekkeri Port, Tallinn). PC's worked fine in the conditions until the ice started to melt everywhere in the daytime and re-freeze at night, the resulting humid/quick cooling conditions left condesation inside everything on the bridge and the PCs there wouldn't boot for a while after the weather got better. Back to telex and phonecalls for those long days!

Also my HD is physcially failing and makes quite racket but it always gets to the post screen without incident.

Do you get case-lights and fan-noise when you flick the power on?

[-Alex-]

::Double post, sorry Firefox twitched hard so I submitted again::

[Phoenix3dfx225]

PC's do like running cold, hence why I had a phase change cooler (freezer unit) that chills the cpu down to -60c. Allows for crazy speeds to be gained

google vapochill LS

(however they have killed a few motherboads in the past with condensation)

[volf]

Rather than open another topic - Can some one explain this please? Should it have all of those up'n'down spikes along the bottom? Its normaly, just one flat line...



This is on my PC. The internet has been coming and going, on and off on and off driving me crazy. Only just got back on after shouting at the router, pulling every cable off it and then proding it paper clips at its tiny hole hundreds of times

[Martyn-620Ti]

possable spyware tying to access the internet.

go to Start-run-type CMD, then type netstat. see how may established connetions you have running. with all programs like browsers p2p closed you should have no more then 5-8. any more and your pc has something on it it should not eg virus spyware,mailware etc. do full scans and re test.

Martyn

[volf]

possable spyware tying to access the internet.

go to Start-run-type CMD, then type netstat. see how may established connetions you have running. with all programs like browsers p2p closed you should have no more then 5-8. any more and your pc has something on it it should not eg virus spyware,mailware etc. do full scans and re test.

Martyn

*Secound try at posting*



Ive done a full scan of everything, AVG, Spybot etc etc. Nothing came up so its all clean. Did netstat. Two apear to be MSN messanger (Was running at the time) But not sure about the other ones...

Ever shince Virgin upgraded our area to be "faster" Ive had nothing but problems...

[Vard66]

possable spyware tying to access the internet.

go to Start-run-type CMD, then type netstat. see how may established connetions you have running. with all programs like browsers p2p closed you should have no more then 5-8. any more and your pc has something on it it should not eg virus spyware,mailware etc. do full scans and re test.

Martyn

HOLY F**K

I've got about forty.

*Edit* 75 in total at this count.

How did you post the pic of the printscreen, Volf?

[< KEVIN >]

the network tab has nothing to do with the internet side of you network set up. thats you PC's communicating locally. i wouldn't worry about that, you should see my graph

to be certain it not malware download and install this, very good malware remover. http://www.malwarebytes.org/index.php

and post your process tree from task manager

[Tom™]

just a heads up.. I've got a bunch of servers that are currently enjoying the winter, ambient temp is about 10*C all the HDD's are fine over 100HDD's just loving the cold. so cold wouldn't kill them