I'll try to make this as thorough as possible.
My folks have a Dell Inspiron 531s with the low profile case. It has been having issues of the cpu fan running loud for no reason. Then it would shut down unexpectedly, usually when someone was playing a game or watching a web video. It finally wouldn't reboot. I looked at it and it was showing a Hard Drive error. I coaxed it into booting up and it seemed alright. But the Hard Drive temperature was way too high. It was hot to the touch and had a reading of 52 degrees Celsius. So I concluded that the HD was overheating and the system was shutting down.
Okay. Is it the hard drive, or possibly poor air circulation through the case? I have never been impressed with low profile pc cases. The side 80mm case fan doesn't seem to be blowing very well. I compared it to the airflow through my pc's case fan.
I have brought the hard drive over to my house and hooked it up to my pc. It would not boot all the way, even after running Startup Repair. BUT it never did heat up like it did in its own case. I had it running for a hour or so. Unfortunately I don't have a usb/sata adapter so I can hook the drive up and go through it looking for problems, plus back-up all important files.
So since it did not over heat while I was running it, could it be something else in the pc that is causing the problem?
My folks have a Dell Inspiron 531s with the low profile case. It has been having issues of the cpu fan running loud for no reason. Then it would shut down unexpectedly, usually when someone was playing a game or watching a web video. It finally wouldn't reboot. I looked at it and it was showing a Hard Drive error. I coaxed it into booting up and it seemed alright. But the Hard Drive temperature was way too high. It was hot to the touch and had a reading of 52 degrees Celsius. So I concluded that the HD was overheating and the system was shutting down.
Okay. Is it the hard drive, or possibly poor air circulation through the case? I have never been impressed with low profile pc cases. The side 80mm case fan doesn't seem to be blowing very well. I compared it to the airflow through my pc's case fan.
I have brought the hard drive over to my house and hooked it up to my pc. It would not boot all the way, even after running Startup Repair. BUT it never did heat up like it did in its own case. I had it running for a hour or so. Unfortunately I don't have a usb/sata adapter so I can hook the drive up and go through it looking for problems, plus back-up all important files.
So since it did not over heat while I was running it, could it be something else in the pc that is causing the problem?