Using XP , Overheating and restarting
Hi,
I use my Macbook Pro with XP and for awhile everything was good, but lately my mac suddenly shows a bluescreen with alot of text and then restarts. After the restart it does a disc check. My core temperatur is 60-70 degrees celcius when just running windows and doing nothing els. For instace my computer restarted twice while writing this topic and i tried to use InputRemapper to speed up my fans and it seems to have lowered the temperatur by 10 degrees or so but mac continues to crash and restart. Could the sudden restarts and the heat have something to do with eachother? and if so how do i prevent or fix it?
Thank you.
In my experience, different programs will spit out different temp readings, and I'm not sure which (if any) are reliable. For example, I get maybe a 10-15 C difference between Core Temp and SpeedFan, with Core Temp saying my idle temp on XP is usually in the mid-40's, while SpeedFan gives a number in the mid-50's. On OS X I use iStat Pro, and idle temp is supposedly in the low 50's for the CPU, and mid to upper 50's for the GPU. So whether or not your temperatures are okay really depends on whether or not the program you're using is giving you accurate readings.
Temperature issue aside, the fact that your computer is crashing periodically doesn't sound good. Does this only happen on XP, or also on OS X?
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