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OK. Let's see if I can explain this in a clear and concise way.

Specs:
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+
Motherboard: Foxconn AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 + nForce 405 Micro ATX AMD
Harddrive: SAMSUNG 200GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache
Memory: Two 1gb memory sticks

And a graphics card which I forgot the specs on and am too lazy to look up right now.

My problems are as follows:
º My CPU (stock heatsink) gets too hot according to SpeedFan (as far as I know). Currently my temperatures look like this:
http://www.allanne.com/speedfan.png
º Also, sometimes my harddrive clicks, and I lost some data off my D partition (just files). I'm assuming it was related to that, at least. My C partition is programs. This only happens occasionally, that it clicks, and so far it's only deleted stuff on my D.
º One time my baby sis unplugged my computer, and since then it wants to run the scan in the boot sequence, but it never runs, it says 0 percent completed until I restart and bypass that.

My questions are:
What do all the Temp1,2,3, Core, etc mean?
Should I buy a new harddrive?
Should I buy a new heatsink?
How do I make it scan when it doesn't want to, or fix it?
Does anyone have any other advice?

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First off, Did you realize you gave us a link to your blog? And there's nothing there showing temperatures for your processor?

Without that info, I can't even tell what you mean by the fact that your CPU is to hot. Can you supply us with actual numbers?

Stock heatsinks for CPUs are typically crap. For the average user, they'll do fine but will run warm. Have you overclocked your CPU at all? If so, you DEFINITELY need a better heatsink. If not, you could get along with what you have. Again, we need actual numbers for your CPU temp.

Also, depending on how long your system has been set up, it may be as simple as cleaning it out. You could have a bunch of lint/dust/hair built up in the CPU heatsink that needs blown out.

As far as your data loss problem, and the issue with running a scan at boot up. What kind of scan is it doing? It may be as simple as Windows is not shutting down properly when you turn it off. This could be related to a hard drive that's going bad, bad memory, your CPU running to hot and causing error, corrupted system files, etc....

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I agree, however AMD stock coolers tend to do a better job at cooling than intel stock cooler (which are rubbish) but ethoir way if its anything above 50c than that is worrying, I used to have a AMDX2 6400 with stock for a while it was only runing 30c something like thatI still put a eclispe on it through.

check see if the fan is revving if not look to see if anything is going into the fan, this does not help

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ok, sorry about the link to my blog; it was supposed to be a link to the speedfan image. I'll just give you the current numbers from it then:

Temp1: 70C
Temp2: 39C
Temp3:25C
HD0: 38C
Temp1: 40C
Core: 48C

I don't know what they all mean, but I do know that when the first Temp1 reaches 100 it shuts down. Which it's done three times; I try to keep it from doing that though.

I haven't overclocked my CPU as far as I know. In the bios, all settings to that effect are on the lowest.

I've tried cleaning the heatsink, multiple times.

Well, it's the scan when it boots up, that runs if you didn't properly shut down your computer, only, it freezes and doesn't do the scan!

My fan was running at about 2940-2980 RPM's...is that good or bad?

I'm thinking about getting this; thoughts? http://www.heatsinkfactory.com/the [...] 16160.html (I realize I'll have to buy a separate fan...what's a good one?)

Today my computer did get to 100C and I was frantically shutting things down but it was freezing then finally shut down, and now my skype doesn't work at all. Ugh. This is the first real problem I've had with programs not working (it says there was an error and Runtime is making it close).

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