Lol, I can probably fix the battery problem. You should give it to me :-) On Nov 11, 2017 6:36 PM, "Tomas Kuchta" <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can give you old, unused 4 core 64b ASRock Q1900DC mini-itx board. It > takes 10W from 12-19V power brick, it is 64bit and probably faster to > replace than you problematic piece of HW. > > I do not use it because the battery keeping cmos ram and rtc is not > working. So, it needs screen and keyboard to hit F1 in order to come out of > power loss. That is not useful for closet server board. Otherwise it works > just fine. Maybe it just need new battery, I don't know. > > Tomas > > On Nov 11, 2017 5:37 PM, "King Beowulf" <kingbeow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 11/11/2017 09:19 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > Trying to build a couple of packages here on my 32-bit, 2-core i686 > AMD > > > Athlon(tm) II X2 255 Processor causes a CPU overheat shutdown of the > > > system. > > > Building one large package, ATLAS (a linear algebra library), is > > > recommended > > > to set cpufreq to 'performance' which fixes the govenor at the highest > > > speed. The normal governor is 'ondemand' which sets clock speed > > > depending on > > > load. > > > > > --snip--- > > > > > > Your thoughts and experiences will be helpful. > > > > > > Rich > > > > > > > If you are getting CPU overheating, esp. with this Athlon II X2, which , > > you will need to look at defective case fans, CPU fan or reseat the CPU > > heat sink with fresh CPU paste. The ones I had here I used to pushed > > push hard with seti@home, climatepredictions@home, einstain@home etc > > BOINC projects, and yes games, and never had any significant heat issues. > > > > AMD CPUs run much cooler than the typical Intel CPUs of the same era. > > Athlon II X2 255 have a TPD of only 65W. the cpufrew module just > > overrides the built in automatic CPU speed settings and is only useful > > to safe power (lower electric bill). > > > > You should be able to run that CPU all day at full blast without > > overheating. Check your cooling fans and CPU heat sink. > > > > -Ed > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug