Overheating problems - please help!

Hey, my pc has been suffering recently as the hot ambient temp has caused my HDD to start overheating and crashing when left on for any amount of time.

This is in a SFF case and so there is no room for extra fans. Are there any programs out there to turn down the speed of the HDD to make it produce less heat?

I've currently got the fans turned right up and the case cover off to allow it to stay cool. Its a Maxtor DiamondMax 80GB SATA if that helps.

Any help would be massively appreciated! Thanks

Thanks Codesmith! Some great suggestions there.

My case isn't actually a shuttle, merely a "mini tower" asus, which is about twice the size of a shuttle, which you would think would help the airflow, tho it would appear they haven't factored in the HDD. It sits on its side against the front of the case with no vents or fan placements nearby.

I think i will mod my case a bit to help ventilation, and maybe take out the floppy drive that i never use to aid that further. However, i'd probably want to lower the drive speed a bit for lower temps too. I'd forgotten you can turn off the HDD, so thatnks for that thought, but how do you think you can find that quiet mode option you talked about? Would i need special software from the manufacturer, to change a jumper on the HDD, or maybe just have a look in device manager?

Thanks again

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