Overheating

[Donizeti Pinto]

Friends,

 

We are using a Pentium IV HT 3.04 Ghz, with 512Mb and Windows XP. There are three coolers, monitored by a Intel D865PERL Motherboard.

 

When starting Mastercam, the "Performance indicator" in the Window´s Task Manager shows that CPU use goes up to 100% and keep this way while using MC.

 

The problem is: Due that, the processor is becoming hot (68 Celsius degrees), and the system "falls".

 

We are in Winter here (temperature average 20 degrees celsius), so there is no environment temperature interference.

 

Somebody has experienced this already?

[Bullines]

I'm assuming you're running V9 or earlier, since this issue doesn't affect X. Here are some past threads explaining why Mastercam V9 and ealier use >90% of your CPU; this and that.

 

Here's something you can try. While running Mastercam, if you'll be away from your computer or not working on Mastercam at a given time, have Mastercam display a dialog such as File|Get or the Operations Manager. These are Windows dialogs that are event driven so they use no (or very very few) cycles until you do something with them. You will notice the CPU usage drop, which will cool down your computer while you're not using Mastercam. You can then close them down when you come back to Mastercam.

 

HTH

[Donizeti Pinto]

Yes, you are right about the version. Is a customer that is using V9 yet.

 

About the first "past thread": Their parameters didn´t work in my XP. The second one brought a simple but great idea: Activate a dialog box that takes off the Windows´s focus on the Mastercam.

 

Soon this customer will be using X, and this problem will be solved.

 

Thank you for your quick and precise response. And please apologize me not to find a past response.

 

Regards.

[Glenn Stephens. from CCCS]

Something else you might want to try is a free utility called "speedfan". I have it installed on all of my laptops and it eliminated heat based crashes across the board. Google for "speedfan" and check it out.