Praedor- you're probably right, seeing as how no problems with 8.2. Then 
again, Jim C has a point: "If using these kernels is more compute-intensive 
then wouldn't that logically jack up the heat?"

When I first got this MSI Ultra 2 board, I did some reading on a few hardware 
forums, and the consensus was that although MSI shipped the board without a 
chipset heatsink fan (only the heatsink), and felt this was adequate, people 
were finding it wasn't. They reported weird inexplicable problems, that went 
away when they replaced it with either a heatsink/fan combo, or the Zalman 
chipset  heatsink, with the higher more massive cooling fins, and no fan.

I've touched the MSI heatsink, and it is definitely too warm, as lmsensors 
reports (confirmed by the bios, and windows motherboard monitor). I plan to 
upgrade that heatsink myself. You might remove the side of your case, and 
point a desktop fan directly onto the Northbridge area, and see if the 
problems go away. If so, you know that's at least part of the problem.

BTW, here's my entries for the via chipset on the MSI Ultra 2- should work on 
your Ultra (isn't it the same basic board and chipset?) for lmsensors, and 
Gkrellm. These entries also work on the Abit KX7-333 (same chipset as the 
Ultra 2).

In /etc/rclocal:
--------------------------------
# I2C adapter drivers
modprobe i2c-viapro
# modprobe unknown adapter Velleman K8000 using Bit-shift algorithm
modprobe i2c-isa
# I2C chip drivers
modprobe eeprom
modprobe w83781d
------------------------------------------
in /etc/modules.conf
-------------------
# I2C module options
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
-----------------------------------------

Robert Crawford






On Monday 24 February 2003 05:17 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
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> On Monday 24 February 2003 05:05 pm, flacycads wrote:
> > Since Praedor seems to be having many weird problems as posted on the
> > list, I'm thinking it might be a power supply and/or temperature problem.
>ething to consider if you do in fact have inadequate cooling.
>
> Hmmm.  I always spring for the super cooling fan on my (AMD) cpus.  I have
> a huge double fan cooler with heat compound.  My power supply is a bit
> tepid, a 250 Watt job that I will replace with my next paycheck, but the
> fan is fine. I also have an extra case fan installed.  I cannot recall what
> cooling system resides on my chipset...I believe it is a large(ish)
> heatsink instead of a fan.
>
>
> praedor
>

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