Yes, that was my first thought too. I bought a heavy duty Thermaltake heatsink/fan that was rated for the processor. I made sure I had the thermal grease applied correctly and in sufficent amount. I went into the BIOS setup and monitored the CPU temperature for over an hour and it was well within safe limits. I know that the temperature will rise with CPU activity but it would have to rise a heck of a lot (very technical term) to be outside the safe range.
I would expect chip manufactures to have higher quality for their chips going into servers than they would for the consumer market. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/18/2006 10:32:24 AM >>> Many times when it works like that for a little bit and then freezes up, you're experiencing a thermal issue. There could be any number of reasons for that and a couple of the common ones it seems you looked at (fans, heastink). And yes, the Athlon is not in the same class as the Opteron. :) -Sam -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Pinion Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:19 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Who's been reading our list... I'm sure this is a completely different class of processor, but I recently purchased an AMD Athlon 3200+ XP. After chaning the memory chips, power supply, heatsink/fan, video card, and removing all other cards I finally decided the chip was faulty. It would attempt to boot up and after the initial WinXP screen it would reboot. I tried to reinstall WinXP and the installation failed everytime. I sent the chip back to the store and they tried to install WinXP on a test machine and it failed. They conculded as I concluded the chip was bad. I always thought if the chip were bad nothing would happen, but not in this case, I could sometimes get WinXP to boot in safe mode. In 26 years I've never had that kind of problem with a mainframe! >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5/18/2006 10:12:24 AM >>> On May 18, 2006, at 3:13 AM, John Summerfied wrote: > I have not heard of any failed Intel or AMD CPUs in a very long time. > Accompanying system components such as RAM, disks, NICs, yes, but not > the CPU itself. I'll be happy to give you a couple of mine. OK, so it was thermal failure caused by too many dustbunnies in the processor fan, but still.... Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
