PC Celcius?

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mkjaekmi

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I have a question about the pc celcius.

Now I herd to find out what your pc celsius is, you go to bios or cmos. However, What I don't understand is, when it shows you for an example, a cpu - 30c Does that mean it's current celsius? How would I be able to check my celsius after a while? Like how would I check without restarting my pc and going to my bios?

Thank you
 
Yes. 30*C is Celsius. To check temps without going into BIOS, download SpeedFan (the most common) or Core Temp. They are both temp-monitoring programs.
 
Celcius is simply a way of measuring temperatures as would Farenheit be. There's no such thing as pc celcius except for some slang term. Each hardware like a cpu will have a certain temp range to operate in where you can see the individual temps according to the method used.

The common item seen in the bios setup program not cmos is the hardware monitor which provides direct temp reading from the board's own temperature sensors. A few programs will give close readings if not exact while Windows is running. Those would be SpeedFan, PC Wizard 2008(latest), Everest, and some others.

Keeping an eye on temps overall and seeing the lowest possible with good cooling is the general thought. The lower the better especially for those that overclock hardwares and game or run larger demanding programs drawing heavily on the power supply. For converting celcius into farenheit or reverse one site has an automatic converter seen at http://www.onlineconversion.com/temperature.htm
 
just out of interest, would my pentium D be not liking it if its running at 60*C?

like if im folding and playing a game at the same time it gets too got. usually its around 35-40*C.

but would running it at 60-65 for small amounts of time be too bad for it?
 
wow...

As PC Eye said, Celsius is a way of measuring temperature, just like us American's who use the English system (Fahrenheit). So asking something such as "how do you check my Celsius", doesn't make any sense... at all.
 
I was asking about my PC Celsius, not my body. lol

bios and cmos is not the same thing? To check bios i just click delte as soon as I turn on my comp correct?
 
mkjaekmi said:
I was asking about my PC Celsius, not my body. lol

bios and cmos is not the same thing? To check bios i just click delte as soon as I turn on my comp correct?
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That still doesn't make any sense, and I know you were talking about your computer. What you should be asking is "How do I check my PC's temperature".

To go into the BIOS you usually have to press DEL, however sometimes it maybe F2, it should tell you during the POST.
 
I went to voltage/temperate on pc wizard but it only shows hardware monitoring, and hard disk monitoring. No temperature at all.


Isn't cmos and bios the same thing?
 
mkjaekmi said:
I went to voltage/temperate on pc wizard but it only shows hardware monitoring, and hard disk monitoring. No temperature at all.


Isn't cmos and bios the same thing?
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Use SpeedFan for temp. readings.

BIOS is Basic Input Output System - it's the very first part of your computer that starts when you turn it on and it controls the hardware and tells it what to do while booting up.

CMOS is a separate, but linked, function of BIOS. It's battery-powered and contains certain BIOS settings - think of it as RAM for your BIOS. Sometimes, it's necessary to completely reset your MoBo. To do so, you would first reset CMOS by setting a specific jumper on the MoBo a certain way and leaving it there for a few seconds, then put it back to the original jumper. Afterwards, you would go into BIOS, set the date/time, and load the optimal BIOS settings.
 
CMOS is basically 'BIOS RAM' and is powered by a battery on the MoBo, so even when the system is off, it retains it's data. The data it stores is the BIOS settings (data/time, hardware configuration, shutdown temps, etc.). Basically, when you start your system, it will POST, during which CMOS is 'read' and the system looks for everything that CMOS says should be there.

During some hardware changes, you need to clear the CMOS data to allow for updated data to be stored. Since CMOS is battery-powered, you can't clear it by cutting power - you need to set the CMOS jumper to the 'clear data' setting. The jumper area is comprised of three pins. Usually the jumper is set to pins 2 and 3 to allow for normal use. When clearing CMOS, you would set the jumper to pins 1 and 2 for a period of time (usually 10 seconds, never more than 30 seconds). By doing this, you are telling CMOS to erase itself. After it's cleared, you set the jumper back to the original pins and and turn the system on.

Now, your system will POST as normal, but not find CMOS, so it will flash a message that you need to enter BIOS and set it up. You can spend as much time or as little time doing so as you want. All you must set are the current date/time, after that you can adjust individual settings, or go to the 'Load Optimal Defaults' (or similar) and factory-settings will be loaded. Save the changes, and the new data will be written to CMOS. System will reboot, and this time POST will see the new data and the system will load.

Edit: Sorry for not mentioning before, but if you didn't know, POST stands for Power-On Self-Test, and it...well, tests the system when started! :)
 
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