Colt boot = TOO HOT!

[Carlosinfl]

The System

Pentium 4 3.0 GHz (not over clocked)
EPoX EP-P4CA3+ Intel board
Zalman Heatsink & Fan
ATI X800 Pro 256
2 GIG's Corsair XMS 3200 DDR RAM

So its about a nice 75 degrees in my house and I decided to keep my PC off for a few hours while sleeping. 9 hours later I boot my system up from a cold boot and notice as the POST stats read out, it shows my CPU temp is 42/107


How can my system being shut off for hours and immediatley be 107 C???

Is this reading just totally off? There is no way a system can be that hot after booting for like 3-5 seconds from staying off for over hours.

Any thoughts?

 

[Dragon365]

That's 42 celsius/107 farenheit. Which is still rather high unless you have a prescott. How many other fans are in the system?

 

[Jerunk]

...

Good lord.

 

[Carlosinfl]

I have a nice Antec case (Aluminum) and I 120mm intake and a 120mm exhaust.

 

[Sc4freak]

That temperature sounds about right for a Prescott. If you have a Northwood then you have something to worry about.

 

[Dillusion]

yeah dude chill out, 42C is 107F ... 107F is GREAT for a prescott

 

[Carlosinfl]

yeah dude chill out, 42C is 107F ... 107F is GREAT for a prescott

ok, I just asked a question so try to understand this is a message board...

42C from a cold boot is just strange. How can something sitting in room temp just stay at 107F? Remember this is just the POST reading so as the system gets going...temps climb.

 

[Dillusion]

it takes about 2-4 second for a CPU to heat up, and when the metal starts heating up, the whole heatspreader hits that degree