All heat up CDROM Drive

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 11:14 am

Here's the situtiaon, I just get a new HDD and plan to reinstall everything (i hate straight copy from old HDD

) When I try install a program from the original disk -which got some scratch due the age of CD, my CDROM seems reading it a bit slow. Being curious natured, I check on the CDROM temperature and to my surprise it got warm temperature. Is this normal ? I'm concern about the optic section of CDROM due the warm temperature.

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 2:57 pm

How warm is it? Is it too hot to touch or just warmer than you thought it would be?

Just about everything inside your case is going to generate heat. Generally speaking the CPU and GPU generate the most, followed by the HDD and the ODD, because they have the most moving parts.

If you CD-ROM is so hot that it's melting or warping plastics, you should get a new one, otherwise it's probably working at the temperature it was designed for. If you think it's that much of an issue, you should either get another drive to compare temperatures or add another case fan to keep things cool.

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 3:12 pm

The CDROM is still touchable, yet I doubt that a 48x CDROM drive can generate such heat.

As heat factor from others, I have 7 cooling fans installed besides fan from power supply. 4 fans on both 7200 rpm HDDs, one at processor, one at graphic card and one casing fan sucking the hot air generated by processor out the casing. I'll be adding an intake fan next week, hence i doubt that there's much heat building up inside my CPU

Regularly does new generation of CDROM drive (50X and above)generate heat ?

Nippy · Post by **Nippy** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 3:39 pm

How many fans?! Well blow me down!

All jokes aside, I've found that my CD's didn't over-generate heat at all...

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:09 pm

If you notice it being hot, it probably is. I wouldn't use that drive anymore. Swap it with another CD-ROM and see if it puts out the same amount of heat. If the other drive doesn't, you've got a problem.

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:58 pm

HLD, does the ATA difference also a factor ? I got my ATA133 HDD hooked with this CDROM which only support mode 1. Sorry to inform this a bit late. i just run a check in the BIOS

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:41 pm

It shouldn't make any difference. If you're running an ATA33 CD-ROM on the same channel as an ATA133 HDD, the only effect should be the throughput from your HDD being slowed, but I've never heard of it causing extra heat to build up.

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 9:05 pm

Thanks HLD. And you too Nippy

I think it's time I retire this CDROM. I'll be "window on-line shopping" now

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 9:09 pm

Originally posted by HighLordDave
It shouldn't make any difference. If you're running an ATA33 CD-ROM on the same channel as an ATA133 HDD, the only effect should be the throughput from your HDD being slowed, but I've never heard of it causing extra heat to build up.

I agree. If anything happens, it should generate less heat as the HDD isn't operating at full speed.

The CD-ROM in my PC gets warm, but not to the point of being too hot to touch. How much venitalion is there around the CD-ROM drive?

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Wed Mar 19, 2003 9:34 pm

@Flibs : the CDROM is a bit near HDD fans. Yet I doubt the HDD fans can cool reduce the heat factor of CDROM. FYI the CPU was in open state when I check on the temp last time