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Windows 10 causing overheating???
This is a little bit long-winded, but I'm hoping you'll bear with me.
A couple of weeks ago, I allowed my server (a 7-year-old HP ProLiant ML115) to automatically upgrade itself from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Professional. So far, so good. Or so I thought.
At the beginning of the week, I started having problems with the Windows 10 installation. All of a sudden I couldn't click on the Start button, and had to launch programs by browsing to them on File Explorer and launching them that way. After I had a discussion with one of our IT guys at work, he advised that the upgrade from Windows 7 to 10 has a 50% success/fail rate. If I remember correctly, the exact phrase he used was "train-wreck".
So, downloaded the ISO, burned it to DVD and installed Windows 10 Pro as a clean build.
Now I've got a different problem. For the first time in the 7 years since I bought the server, it's automatically closed itself down because it's overheating. Now, I'm prepared to believe that there may be a hardware issue at the bottom of this, but before I spend time (and probably money) trying to trace the component that's causing the machine to overheat, I want to make sure that there isn't likely to be a software issue (i.e. the Operating System) at fault.
Does anyone know if Windows 10 has been proved to cause overheating in host machines? If so, is it a particular app or piece of software that would be causing it? I did some digging earlier where someone had suggested that perhaps the issue was coming from Windows Defender. The issue I've got with that is that as far as I can see it isn't possible to permanently disable Defender, so if it IS Defender I'd need to be able to hack it out in favour of an alternative security package.
So, bottom line: hardware, software of OS?