On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Mike Chalmers wrote:
On 12/11/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Recently installed FC6 on an old P-III 500MHz. At first, it would
reliably do thermal shutdowns during the dependency resolution step. Also
did shutdowns during memtest86.
I swapped the CPU package from one of the two slots to the other (tried to
get airflow across the package back and probably shook out some dust) and
it's been fine ever since.
I will try dusting it off. I still don't know why it would have never
happened before. Matthew, what kind of fan did you use? Price is not
an option on the fan, because that is important. But not to high. Does
anyone recommend thermoelectric cooling?
This machine has a case fan at the end of a plastic tunnel that draws air
past the CPU package slots. It doesn't have a heat-sink fan.
What is a reliable shutdown? I don't think the screen going black then
returning me to the is a reliable shutdown, is it?
"Reliable" in the sense that it was not intermittent. My BIOS has a
setting that will force power off when thermal violations are detected.
That's what was doing the shutdown.
I don't think letting it overheat again is a good idea. It could break
it. It is Intel P4 HT 3.0 ghz processor. Can't afford to lose that. If
I did run update again and the cpu overheated, wouldn't that mean it
was Linux?
Linux may make your CPU work hard, but it shouldn't cause it to overheat
if the hardware is otherwise OK. See the other posts in this thread.
Kind Regards,
Preston
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
