I upgraded the software as recommended by start guide and syslog kept reporting kernel: overtemp, shutdown.
Reflashing appeared to fix that, but mine is still slightly too hot to touch heatsink, heat sink about 50 C The (Linux) CPU activity LED seems on a lot, when doing nothing (useful). On Thursday, 26 September 2019 00:51:41 UTC+1, Paul Richards wrote: > > I got 2 BeagleBone AI's from Mouser and started working with them today. > > Both of my boards boot and run with the 08-03 build. > > I haven't done anything to modify the contents of the filesystem, I merely > booted and connected via Cloud9. > > On both boards, the main CPU heat sink and the Kingston RAM module > immediately > heat up and run incredibly hot. I measured >80C on the CPU and >90C on > the RAM module with my IR thermometer. > > System load looked fine, nothing was running away and stealing all the CPU. > > We intend to use these in lieu of BeagleBone Black modules for a project > in the Keck telescopes and if they normally run this hot, it will never > work. > > S/N range is 4000167 1301 003491 1933 > > > Is my experience atypical? What temperature should these boards nominally > run at? > > > > Paul > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/50f240e7-bf6b-484c-9f7e-18b648f65453%40googlegroups.com.
