Re: Mersenne: Overheating!

2003-03-19 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:38:52AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> hey, speaking of... anyone care to point me to something I can understand on
> how to configure lm_sensors in Linux to work with an Intel server board?
> I'm getting no readings...

Try "sensors-detect".

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Re: Mersenne: Overheating!

2003-03-19 Thread John R Pierce
> P4 1.8A, retail box HSF, 50C
> P4 2.53B, Zalman CuAl HSF, <2000 rpm, 44C
> P4 2.66B, Zalman CuAl HSF, <2000 rpm, 45C

and to add a data point...

  P4 2.53B, Intel retail HSF, 46C (115F)

this in an Antec plus1080 case, with 2 case fans running at a very slow
speed, the 2 motherboard temp sensors are reading 38C (100F).  If I hook the
case fans up to straight 12V rather than the speed reduced fan power coming
out of the Antec power supply, the case temp drops 5C or more in a matter of
seconds, and the CPU temp tracks.

hey, speaking of... anyone care to point me to something I can understand on
how to configure lm_sensors in Linux to work with an Intel server board?
I'm getting no readings...

# sensors
Can't access /proc file
/proc/sys/dev/sensors/chips or /proc/bus/i2c unreadable;
Make sure you have done 'modprobe i2c-proc'!
# modprobe i2c-proc
# sensors
No sensors found!


(this is with Redhat 8 on a E7501 based dual xeon server board, the
SE7501WV2, kernel linux-2.4.18-27.8.0)


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Re: Mersenne: Overheating!

2003-03-19 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 00:10, Elias Daher wrote:
> Thanks all, actually I was thinking of opening the case, (but too lazy to
> do it...) and the weird thing now is that the temperature is stable with
> Prime95 running with other applications, and it's not reaching the level it
> was reaching two days ago and I'm still testing the same number... It's

Odd. I wonder if a fan stalled. Possibly even the case fan, if you have only 
one fitted.

> still hot though, the CPU is running at 65°C and the board at 55°C...
> Anyway, the P4 is tough, it can handle it! (Once the CPU temp reached 85°C
> for more than 10 minutes cause it was running without a fan!!!)

AFAIK the Intel spec for thermal throttling is 75C.

However the P4's I'm running are all reasonably cool:

P4 1.8A, retail box HSF, 50C
P4 2.53B, Zalman CuAl HSF, <2000 rpm, 44C
P4 2.66B, Zalman CuAl HSF, <2000 rpm, 45C

Zalman HSF comes with a rheostat which allows you to vary the fan speed from 
(approx) 1500 - 3000 rpm - below 2000 rpm it's highly unlikely that you will 
be able to hear the fan, so this HSF is quiet as well as effective. The only 
change I made to Zalman's installation instructions was to use Arctic Silver 
thermal compund instead of the small tube of gloop included in the Zalman 
kit. Note, I'm not saying Zalman's gloop is useless, but Arctic Silver is 
usually a couple of degrees cooler than other stuff.

A decently ventilated case helps, too ...

Regards
Brian Beesley
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