On Wednesday November 6 2002 05:41 am, Silent Bob wrote: > My Mandrake freezes without warning shortly after reboot. But this > one is a hardware problem. I tested the harddrive in other machine.
Booting into X, or to level 3 ? Booting into X it could be a video problem. Configure to boot to level 3 till you get things sorted out. > Does anyone know what is the normal operating temperature for AMD > duron 1300. Mine is running at 59C and I think that over heating > could be the problem. Although I have a cooler with 2 fans witch is > for AMD processors up to 1,5 Ghz Most AMD proccesors have a failure temp of ~90 to 95C internal core. If 59C is from bios it's pretty much useless, the system has just booted and the cpu is under low load. Your cpu heats very rapidly as soon as you begin to boot into an OS. If it's from lm_sensors, it's comin from a probe (thermistor) that either reads one of the cpu's pins, or is in contact with the die. From a pin is slightly better, but in either case the reported temp is 10 to 20C less than the actual internal core temp. So 59C could mean a core temp closer to 79C, but probly ~low 70C's. Anyway, it's too high. You want to see reported probe temps of 45 to 55C under 100% cpu load, 40 to 50C is better. Your cooler is probly fine, but do you have it mounted with a thermal pad or grease? Grease is much better, specially over time. Your case temps maybe too high to let the cooler do it's job. Take the case cover off and point a table fan directly into the box aimed at the cpu and chipset heatsinks. Does the problem go away? If it doesn't, next likely culprits are marginal power supply (is yours AMD approved?), or marginal motherboard/ram (they work together, equally important). Try testing with memtest86, the rpm is on your CD's. It'll create a lilo (or grub) option to boot 'memtest86-xx'. Let it run overnight. You should see -0- errors. Your question is not off topic. IMO, most problems reported on this list have a basis in hardware and configuration, while Mandrake gets blamed. At least you've yourself pointed in a good direction, as hardware problems should always be checked and eliminated first ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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