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I have compaq presario pentium 3 with xp home . The cpu really gets hot . Temperature reachs 90 degrees celsius and it shuts off . I wanted to use undervolting to control the over heating but the program righmark cpu is not working for some reason . It show all the information about the cpu etc but the pid and vid section is blank N/A and can not input any value as well. I have installed and tried NHC same problem . I wanted to try undervolting before opening the hardware and check for problems. thanks for the help.

I'm pretty sure it's dust, so you'll have to open it up.

I do not think the P3's have undervolting capability. The newer cpus control the voltage themselves, whereas with older cpus the motherboard controls it, which is alot harder to do via software.

thanks aaa it has to be the case downloaded several versions of rightmark and NHC none seems to work. I have to open it up and clean up the dust .thanks again and happy holidays.