high ambient temp stress testing

[gaspah]

Hi there,

I've just finished a bunch of builds and i put the first one on the bench for a stresstest.. it lasted 15-20minutes before shutting off... i reckon its because of ambient tempurate... i mean right now here in perth it is 40°C and add another 10°C in our warehouse (so say 50°C)... is this too hot to be running a stress-test...


the rig i hooked up is
AMD ATHLON X2 5200+
GA-M56S-S3
1x1GiB Hynix DDR667
Samsung 250GB SATA HDD
XpertVision 8400GS
Samsung writemaster 20x DVD
Card reader..

and im running Burn In Test


cheers

 

[phongus]

it seems you are getting the shut downs pretty quick because i don't think you have enough components to make that burn run longer. add more ram and burn it in some more.

 

[gaspah]

it seems you are getting the shut downs pretty quick because i don't think you have enough components to make that burn run longer. add more ram and burn it in some more.

??? i've build over a hundred of this exact machine... same everything... i've ran BIT test on sub 1GB machines plenty of times..

oh BTW i'm running BIT in a Windows 98 Preinstall Environment... so i dont really know how to load temp monitoring progs into it...

 

[gaspah]

bump - k... well its home time now... so i guess i'll just run the test tomorrow morning.. i should only be 32-35°C @ 9am tomorrow LOL... later [H] crew

 

[BlindedByScience]

FYI - the company I work for tests all our new PC hardware at 50C ambient across voltage tolerances for the bus in use. That includes MoBo, hard drives, and the products under test all in the chamber. You bet it's hot, but things should run just fine at 40C ambient.

 

[gaspah]

FYI - the company I work for tests all our new PC hardware at 50C ambient across voltage tolerances for the bus in use. That includes MoBo, hard drives, and the products under test all in the chamber. You bet it's hot, but things should run just fine at 40C ambient.

thanks... thats really good to know... this heatwave is expected to last another week thanks alot...

 

[gaspah]

OK... now i've concluded that our warehouse during a heatwave is NOT a suitable environment to stress test... or even install windows for that matter... I'm not sure of the exact temperature in that warehouse... but now 6 separate machines have failed their stress test out there and 1 have failed to get past the EULA installing windows... all machines once brought into the A/C office area all finish their runs/install windows perfect...

TOOO HOT.... feel like feasting on penguins...

 

[gaspah]

k spoke to soon for the windows install one.. that one just failed in the A/C so i gotta pick it apart now