I just had a scary experience...

[DMB2000uk]

Just brought my system out of standby, which i hardly ever put it into, and noticed that my fans were running the full 12v speed, when they normally run 6v. So I checked my abit monitor and my CPU was in the high 50oC range. The CPU was barely at 15% load, so shouldn't have been anywhere near that hot. uh oh i thought.

I wondered if the CPU had somehow still been active during standby and had slowly creeped up to that temperature while it had been 'off'. But it wasn't cooling down with the fans running full tilt. It was getting hotter in fact. So I cracked off the case side to have a gander.

Touching the copper block on the CPU waterblock practically burnt me (low 60oC CPU temp by now), but everything else in the case was cool (nb/sb/gpu etc). I couldn't feel the pump vibrating when i touched it So i decided the pump wasn't running. Shutdown, wait, boot up and its back in action. (Then uGuru said one of my fans was at 300rpm, which it was, so I unplugged and replugged that in, and it worked ok again).

Do you think this is the start of my pump going bad, or was just some freakiness of coming out of standby? My rig is a year and a couple of months old, and has had a fair bit of use so far. I guess all I can do is keep an eye on it from now on, here's hoping it was a standby related failure.

Dan

[Dragon_Cooler]

Which OS are you running? Because i know Vista has had a lot of problems with standby modes!

[Methious]

Your right Dragon, I get calls almost every day about Vista standby modes, usually some thing USB not working after coming back from low power state.

[DMB2000uk]

I'm dual booting it with XP, but tbh, I have had no reason to go into and use vista, maybe when it is time to go DX10 there will be, but so far im all XP.

And the pump is directly connected to a PSU molex, so its not as easy as a software thing like that.

Dan