Hi, It is now some time I get nightly shutdowns "due to thermal event" (so the Bios says). I'm pretty sure the processor did not break down and the machine is in general good health (I can run XP without problems). One "strange" thing is the breakdown happens in the night, shortly after 1 am. I'm not aware of programs running at that time, but something must be triggering the overheating.
The machine is a: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz based on an Intel motherboard (D865GBF) with 1Gb RAM, a lot of disks (I added a PCI board with tertiary and quaternary IDE channels) running: Linux heimdall 2.6.12-1-686 #1 Tue Sep 27 12:52:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux from a very current version of debian/sid. The machine is primarily used as server (file, www, DNS, DHCP, ADSL), but somethimes I run programs on it. I did some homework and, in particular, I installed sensord. The results are: adm1027-i2c-0-2e Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at c400 V1.5: +1.481 V (min = +1.42 V, max = +1.58 V) VCore: +1.354 V (min = +1.30 V, max = +1.44 V) V3.3: +3.399 V (min = +3.13 V, max = +3.47 V) V5: +5.130 V (min = +4.74 V, max = +5.26 V) V12: +12.063 V (min = +11.38 V, max = +12.62 V) CPU_Fan: 2828 RPM (min = 4000 RPM) ALARM fan2: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM) fan3: 0 RPM (min = 0 RPM) fan4: 645 RPM (min = 0 RPM) CPU: +41.00°C (low = +10°C, high = +50°C) Board: +31.50°C (low = +10°C, high = +35°C) Remote: +33.25°C (low = +10°C, high = +35°C) CPU_PWM: 255 Fan2_PWM: 255 Fan3_PWM: 77 vid: +1.375 V (VRM Version 9.1) Philips PAL_BG -i2c-1-61 Adapter: bt878 #0 [sw] tveeprom-i2c-1-50 Adapter: bt878 #0 [sw] As You can see the temperatures look quite reasonable, but, under heavy load, they start to rise and then seem to stabilize around 55°C. I admit I got nervous and lowered the load in less than 2 min, so the "stabilization" could be apparent :) The "bad part" is I could not see any change in the fan activity, which seems to be completely independent from the temperature. I tried to install the fancontrol script (from the sensors package), but the configuration script (pwmconfig) failed badly: ... Found the following PWM controls: 0-002e/pwm1 /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: line 102: 0-002e/pwm1_enable: Permission denied 0-002e/pwm2 /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: line 102: 0-002e/pwm2_enable: Permission denied 0-002e/pwm3 /usr/sbin/pwmconfig: line 102: 0-002e/pwm3_enable: Permission denied Found the following fan sensors: 0-002e/fan1_input current speed: 2811 RPM 0-002e/fan2_input current speed: 0 ... skipping! 0-002e/fan3_input current speed: 0 ... skipping! 0-002e/fan4_input current speed: 661 RPM ... which looks real bad :( The incriminated line tries to access /proc/sys/dev/sensors/... that is not present on my machine (/proc/sys/dev holds only four subdirs: cdrom, hpet, parport and scsi). I have to assume that something went wrong with my installation of sensors, but I cannot understand what! Sensord/sensors/xsensors seem to work fine. What am I missing? The list of the loaded modules follows: Module Size Used by ipt_MASQUERADE 3168 1 ipt_REJECT 5504 4 ipt_LOG 7168 10 ip6table_filter 2560 0 ip6_tables 18752 1 ip6table_filter ipt_state 1696 15 ipt_pkttype 1440 4 iptable_raw 1824 0 ipt_CONNMARK 2016 0 ipt_MARK 2304 0 ipt_connmark 1472 0 ipt_owner 2976 0 ipt_recent 10764 0 ipt_iprange 1568 0 ipt_physdev 2032 0 ipt_multiport 2432 0 ipt_conntrack 2240 3 iptable_mangle 2656 0 ip_nat_irc 2528 0 ip_nat_tftp 1728 0 ip_nat_ftp 3328 0 iptable_nat 23092 5 ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack_irc 71664 1 ip_nat_irc ip_conntrack_tftp 4048 1 ip_nat_tftp ip_conntrack_ftp 72848 1 ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack 44536 10 ipt_MASQUERADE,ipt_state,ipt_conntrack,ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_ftp,iptable_nat,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_tftp,ip_conn track_ftp iptable_filter 2784 1 ip_tables 20128 18 ipt_MASQUERADE,ipt_REJECT,ipt_LOG,ipt_state,ipt_pkttype,iptable_raw,ipt_CONNMARK,ipt_MARK,ipt_connmark,ipt_owner,ipt_recent,ipt_iprange,ipt_physdev,ipt_multiport,ipt_conntrack,iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,ipta ble_filter ppp_synctty 9824 1 ppp_generic 29620 5 ppp_synctty slhc 7168 1 ppp_generic n_hdlc 9188 1 i915 20512 1 drm 67732 2 i915 nfsd 225760 9 exportfs 5792 1 nfsd af_packet 22216 2 lp 12164 0 thermal 13224 0 fan 4516 0 button 6416 0 processor 21876 1 thermal ac 4612 0 battery 9348 0 ipv6 261984 14 nfs 217544 3 lockd 64968 3 nfsd,nfs sunrpc 142180 14 nfsd,nfs,lockd ext2 69800 1 dm_mod 60540 0 eeprom 7280 0 lm85 35812 0 i2c_sensor 3264 2 eeprom,lm85 i2c_isa 1888 0 usbhid 36480 0 usbmouse 5376 0 sd_mod 19664 4 e100 35968 0 tuner 27688 0 tvaudio 23716 0 eepro100 30864 0 mii 5696 2 e100,eepro100 bttv 157456 0 video_buf 21828 1 bttv firmware_class 10112 1 bttv i2c_algo_bit 9576 1 bttv snd_bt87x 14536 0 v4l2_common 5696 1 bttv btcx_risc 4968 1 bttv tveeprom 13080 1 bttv videodev 9568 1 bttv snd_intel8x0 34016 0 snd_ac97_codec 83960 1 snd_intel8x0 hw_random 5204 0 snd_pcm 93416 3 snd_bt87x,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec tpm_atmel 4800 0 snd_timer 24644 1 snd_pcm snd 56260 5 snd_bt87x,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,sn d_timer parport_pc 36708 1 parport 36936 2 lp,parport_pc ata_piix 9636 2 soundcore 9696 1 snd libata 49604 1 ata_piix tpm_nsc 6592 0 tpm 10432 2 tpm_atmel,tpm_nsc snd_page_alloc 9860 3 snd_bt87x,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm i8xx_tco 7028 0 i2c_i801 8716 0 scsi_mod 138472 2 sd_mod,libata i2c_core 21776 10 eeprom,lm85,i2c_sensor,i2c_isa,tuner,tvaudio,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_i801 ide_cd 43140 0 shpchp 99428 0 ehci_hcd 35336 0 uhci_hcd 32176 0 pci_hotplug 28468 1 shpchp intel_agp 24092 1 cdrom 40640 1 ide_cd usbcore 122300 5 usbhid,usbmouse,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd psmouse 31236 0 serio_raw 7108 0 intelfb 32800 0 agpgart 35560 4 drm,intel_agp,intelfb evdev 9728 0 mousedev 11776 1 ext3 141736 8 jbd 56760 1 ext3 mbcache 9252 2 ext2,ext3 ide_disk 18688 13 ide_generic 1152 0 [permanent] via82cxxx 13820 0 [permanent] trm290 4196 0 [permanent] triflex 3680 0 [permanent] slc90e66 5664 0 [permanent] sis5513 16488 0 [permanent] siimage 12448 0 [permanent] serverworks 9032 0 [permanent] sc1200 7296 0 [permanent] rz1000 2400 0 [permanent] piix 10340 0 [permanent] pdc202xx_old 11168 0 [permanent] opti621 4324 0 [permanent] ns87415 4264 0 [permanent] hpt366 20384 0 [permanent] hpt34x 5152 0 [permanent] generic 3808 0 [permanent] cy82c693 4676 0 [permanent] cs5530 5312 0 [permanent] cs5520 4544 0 [permanent] cmd64x 12028 0 [permanent] atiixp 5904 0 [permanent] amd74xx 14396 0 [permanent] alim15x3 12268 0 [permanent] aec62xx 7360 0 [permanent] pdc202xx_new 9248 0 [permanent] ide_core 130388 28 ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_generic,via82cxxx,trm290,triflex,slc90e66,sis5513,siimage,serverworks,sc1200,rz1000,piix,pdc202xx_old,opti621,ns87415,hpt366,hpt34x,generic,cy82c693,cs5530,cs5520,cmd64x,atiixp,amd74xx,alim15x3,aec62xx,pdc202xx_new unix 27888 438 fbcon 39936 0 tileblit 2240 1 fbcon font 8096 1 fbcon bitblit 5920 1 fbcon vesafb 7992 0 cfbcopyarea 3872 2 intelfb,vesafb cfbimgblt 2816 2 intelfb,vesafb cfbfillrect 4128 2 intelfb,vesafb softcursor 2176 2 intelfb,vesafb capability 4584 0 commoncap 6912 1 capability I do not know what else could be relevent, so I do not include any other info, but I'm ready to send anything You may think useful to solve this. Thanks in Advance Mauro P.S.: I'm posting from a web mailer, so it might be that the mail is sent in HTML, but I have no control over that. could someone confirm or refute this? Thanks again Mauro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]