At 9:41 AM -0500 10/25/06, Arthur Pemberton wrote: >I got messages saying that the machine was running hot on several >occasions. The first time, I shut down the machine, check thed the >temp in the BIOS (68 degrees C) and then proceeded to clean out the >CPU fan, and dusted teh rest of the machine. > >The second time I just restarted to the BIOS to check the temp again >myself: 74 degrees C Both these temps are supposed to be within the >okay range of my Intel Celeron running at 2.8 GHz. > >Please advise on what could be causing this, the message (pasted >below) are very unsettling. > >====================================================== >Oct 25 01:38:00 Watson kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold >Oct 25 01:38:00 Watson kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode >Oct 25 01:38:03 Watson ntpd[2569]: kernel time sync enabled 0001 >Oct 25 01:38:05 Watson kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold >Oct 25 01:38:05 Watson kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode >Oct 25 01:38:10 Watson kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold >Oct 25 01:38:10 Watson kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode >Oct 25 01:38:15 Watson kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold >Oct 25 01:38:15 Watson kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode >Oct 25 01:38:20 Watson kernel: CPU0: Temperature/speed normal >Oct 25 01:38:25 Watson kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold >====================================================== What is the threshold set to? -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
