Okay, I know it's been a while, and now we're up to build 86, but it still kills my Dell.
And I think that it might be due to heat, but not in the way everybody thinks. Here's what I've done: I got some compressed air, took the laptop apart and blew air through every slot, hole, and orifice I could find. There wasn't much dust that I could see, but I did as thorough job as I could. (I didn't take the heat pipes off the CPU and GPU, however, as I didn't want to risk mucking it up.) I was able to complete an install of b82, but, after a couple of hours of using it, BEEP+stop. Repeat for builds up to 86, wot I tried last night. Bugger. Got some Windows software (I8kfanGUI <http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/>) so I could get a feel for what was going on. (Is there any way I can get at the temperarture and fan monitors in SX?) (Oh, just found dellfand via Googling, it is apparently OpenSolaris aware, I shall look into it, soonly.) Under XP, no matter what I do, I can't get it hot enough for long enough for it to go blooie. Observations - under SX, the *memory* section (in the centre, underneath) gets really, *really* hot, re-starting into XP shows a memory temperature of 60C!! The machine uses a Pentium-M, with "SpeedStep". Wandering around I have found mention of this not being quite right in earlier builds, should this be fixed? So, next I'll try it with the dellfand running, and see what happens. Also, it is using Hynix DDR2-533 RAM, where the Dell site wants to sell me 667 RAM - so it could be that SX is just pushing that little bit too far... I intend putting in 2Gig of 667 RAM RSN anyway, if I can't get a stable SX system to VirtiualBox XP I'll go the other way and VMWare SX under XP. Cheers, Gary B-) This message posted from opensolaris.org
