Tony,

I alway thought that by taking the side panels off my system would help it
run cooler, until someone pointed out that by removing the side panels you
end up defeating your fans attempts to cool your system, as they seem to
have little effect outside the enclosed enviroment.

Try putting the sides back on your system, and it should run cooler.
Failing that, I know a couple people that keep the panels off and actually
use regular house fans to blow air through their systems to keep them cool,
but I imagine dust must cause them problems.

Keep us posted.

SC




"Tony Payne" <ajhpayne@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:bS3dc.95891$JO3.49859@attbi_s04...

Thanks everyone for your help.
I'm now running SpeedFan (www.speedfan.com) which helps to monitor the

speed

of the fan(s) and shows the temperatures.
Even without Seti running, my CPU is at 23C, Motherboard 52C, AUX 34C, but
the killer is Temp2 at 77C.
I'm not sure what Temp2 is, it's reported from the L90 chip on the Soyo
motherboard, and this is what's causing the system to shut down.  With

Seti

running the temp goes from 70's up to 90+ which is steaming hot.  For sure

I

need to find out what this is and cool it down - unless it's a faulty
sensor!
One question I do have is that I have the covers off the case and have had
for some time.  I would have thought that having the covers off would

allow

the system to cool better, but does this also prevent the air flow from

the

fans from being channelled?  In this case having the covers off is bad.  I
have a good Ultra CPU fan, plus a new 550watt power supply with 2 fans.

The

previous power supply was only 300watt but the system still overheated -
this one doesn't seem to make much difference.
Any thoughts?