I'm sure many of you are running software coolers such as CPU Idle Extreme or something else. Does anyone know of anymore software cooling utilities?
I'm suffering a heatwave where I live at the moment. Came back to a closed house on Friday where the indoors room temps were well over outdoor temps (my very own greenhouse effect
). Outdoor temps were about 100F, indoor, believe it or not, was much higher.
In the past week I've been suffering some crashes on this AthlonXP 3200+. It still has the stock fan, but I'm ordering a Tower112, ducts and 2 fans in a week or so. Idle temp as I speak is 140F. This is with a software cooler running.
Idle temps were normally 100-105F.
Now I use CPU Idle Extreme and unfortunately it does not run as a service which means it doubles up when you switch between users. Also, under a screen lock it doesn't seem to be doing its job (idle temps in excess of 145F).
So, can someone direct me to a better software-based CPU cooler which preferably runs as a service under WinXP?
Or better yet, help me out and direct me to some info on running priviledged commands within a C++ win application? The "HLT" command is reserved for kernel calls (CPL=0). How does one go about creating an example kernel mode driver/service, or how does one go about actually calling the HTL command?
I'm suffering a heatwave where I live at the moment. Came back to a closed house on Friday where the indoors room temps were well over outdoor temps (my very own greenhouse effect
). Outdoor temps were about 100F, indoor, believe it or not, was much higher. In the past week I've been suffering some crashes on this AthlonXP 3200+. It still has the stock fan, but I'm ordering a Tower112, ducts and 2 fans in a week or so. Idle temp as I speak is 140F. This is with a software cooler running.
Idle temps were normally 100-105F.
Now I use CPU Idle Extreme and unfortunately it does not run as a service which means it doubles up when you switch between users. Also, under a screen lock it doesn't seem to be doing its job (idle temps in excess of 145F).
So, can someone direct me to a better software-based CPU cooler which preferably runs as a service under WinXP?
Or better yet, help me out and direct me to some info on running priviledged commands within a C++ win application? The "HLT" command is reserved for kernel calls (CPL=0). How does one go about creating an example kernel mode driver/service, or how does one go about actually calling the HTL command?
