Restart after overheating

[Andreas Klein]

Please help!
I suspect that my Pyramix computer overheated and shut down completely. It can't be turned on again after a long cooling off period. Resetting the power switch on the back does not help. The blue Merging logo button on the front panel flickers once, but the computer will not reboot. What should be done? Any advise? Is there a "trick"?

Thanks for helping out.
Andreas Klein
ULTIMO Productions
Huntington, NY

[tim]

It would appear this is purely a hardware issue...I'd recommend swapping out components one at a time until you narrow it down. I hate to say it, but it could be motherboard, RAM, processor, power supply. PS is the easiest, maybe begin there. Then maybe graphics card. Then you'll need to soldier on through the more painful stuff.

Good luck.....

Tim Martyn

[Andreas Klein]

Thanks, Tim Martin, for your reply. If it turns out to be a hardware issue, I wouldn't tackle that, but send the computer for repair. This is not the first time that the Pyramix computer is too fragile to handle a possible overheating which -I heard- for other computers usually means a restart after cooling down, because those machines have preventive measures built in to avoid damaging themselves.

Andreas Klein

[Graemme]

There's nothing special about the Merging computers that makes them more or less fragile than any other PC. If anything, they're better than most. If it's overheating then you need to deal with the cause of it (i.e. prevent) and this is true of any gear - deny it appropriate cooling / ventilation and it will break, sooner than later.

Ggraemme

[Ricardo Ryan]

Hi,

You could monitor your CPU temperature with a utility like this one http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/
If you see that your temperature rises too high, make sure the CPU fan is well fixed and that you have enough Cpu termal paste .

Regards,
Ricardo

Merging Technolgies

[mpdonahue]

Just a quick comment about the Merging PC cases.
If you have the front door closed and the unit sitting on the ground or any flat surface, the case will tend to overheat. (I've never gotten mine to shut down, but I can see how it could happen) This is because all the cool air intake is on the bottom of the case in the front. With out this cool air, the case is negatively pressurized and the air in the case does not circulate to cool the components.
There is enough air in the case to run for a long time on passive cooling, but without fresh air, the system will eventually overheat.

All the best,
-mark

[Andreas Klein]

Thanks for your advise and comments. The computer is mounted in a roadcase with suspension, so there is air flow possible from underneath as well. Unfortunately, there is no provision made to shut the computer down before any parts might melt.

Andreas Klein

[David Jacques]

Overheating protection is included in every motherboard available, mounted in a MT chassis or not.

[Perfect Record]

I use a temp monitoring utility called fanspeed. It monitors several temp sensors, including drives. You can present several temperatures on a graph which allows you to see trends from startup through heavy use.

I try to remember to run it once a week so that I can check to see if a fan has died.

(I was going to say "if a fan has gone south", but that may not make sense to our colleagues in the southern hemisphere. When something dies, would you say it's "gone north" in Australia?)

[Ric]

No we still say gone south down here
Ric