Mersenne: Spontaneous Reboots, The Final Message (TM)

2001-03-06 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
Just to finish off what seemed to create the longest thread for quite a while on this list: My machine came back today, with a replacement motherboard of exactly the same type. It now works flawlessly, or at least it has run mprime for 6-8 hours now with no problem at all (the old one had a bit h

Mersenne: Spontaneous reboots -- status so far

2001-02-25 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
Well, I cleaned out some dust (wasn't very much) and put the case back on today -- rebooted, and now it's even worse than it was. Now it can only take 5-6 minutes, which isn't always even enough for system boot (which is SLOW, as RAID reconstruction and ReiserFS journal replay goes on at the same

Re: TR: Mersenne: Spontaneous reboots

2001-02-25 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 25 Feb 2001, at 10:22, Denis Cazor wrote: > After being away for five days recently, I noticed that my computer > (running Linux kernel 2.4.1, by the way -- 2.4.2 now) had rebooted. > Just a few hours later, it rebooted again -- and that night, it rebooted > _again_. Accelerating rate of syst

TR: Mersenne: Spontaneous reboots

2001-02-25 Thread Denis Cazor
Oops, sorry for the mistakes -- After being away for five days recently, I noticed that my computer (running Linux kernel 2.4.1, by the way -- 2.4.2 now) had rebooted. Just a few hours later, it rebooted again -- and that night, it rebooted _again_. If I turn off mprime (v20), the proble

Re: Mersenne: Spontaneous reboots

2001-02-24 Thread Lars Lindley
Brian Beesley wrote: > The fact that your heatsink feels cool(ish) suggests to me that the > thermal bond between the processor and the heat sink has failed. > (If the fan had failed, you'd toast your fingers making this test!) > Actually I'm not overwhelmingly surprised. When I installed my Athlo

RE: Mersenne: Spontaneous reboots

2001-02-24 Thread Denis
-- After being away for five days recently, I noticed that my computer (running Linux kernel 2.4.1, by the way -- 2.4.2 now) had rebooted. Just a few hours later, it rebooted again -- and that night, it rebooted _again_. If I turn off mprime (v20), the problem goes away -- the computer d

Re: Mersenne: Spontaneous reboots

2001-02-24 Thread Kel Utendorf
At 09:58 02/24/2001 +, Brian J. Beesley wrote: >On 23 Feb 2001, at 22:18, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > >> After being away for five days recently, I noticed that my computer >> (running Linux kernel 2.4.1, by the way -- 2.4.2 now) had rebooted. >> Just a few hours later, it rebooted agai

Re: Mersenne: Spontaneous reboots

2001-02-24 Thread Brian J. Beesley
On 23 Feb 2001, at 22:18, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > After being away for five days recently, I noticed that my computer > (running Linux kernel 2.4.1, by the way -- 2.4.2 now) had rebooted. > Just a few hours later, it rebooted again -- and that night, it rebooted > _again_. > > If I turn of

Re: Mersenne: Spontaneous reboots

2001-02-23 Thread Jeramy Ross
is helps, Jeramy - Original Message - From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 3:18 PM Subject: Mersenne: Spontaneous reboots > Hi, > > After being away for five days recently, I noticed that my com

Re: Mersenne: Spontaneous reboots

2001-02-23 Thread Francois Gouget
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: [...] > KA7-100 mainboard) is not overclocked. Does anybody know what's going on > here? Like I said, it's been going fine on the same exponent for quite a > while now, but suddenly, it just feels like rebooting (no error message > or anything, the

Re: Mersenne: Spontaneous reboots

2001-02-23 Thread Paul Victor Novarese
> > After being away for five days recently, I noticed that my computer > > (running Linux kernel 2.4.1, by the way -- 2.4.2 now) had rebooted. > > Just a few hours later, it rebooted again -- and that night, it rebooted > > _again_. > > > > If I turn off mprime (v20), the problem goes away -- th

Re: Mersenne: Spontaneous reboots

2001-02-23 Thread Michael LeBlanc
> If I turn off mprime (v20), the problem goes away -- the computer > doesn't reboot, at least not the 36 hours I tested. After I start > mprime, it reboots in just a couple of minutes now. > > mprime doesn't run as root, the machine has run mprime stably since I > got it (about a year) and the ma

Re: Mersenne: Spontaneous reboots

2001-02-23 Thread Gareth Randall
CPU overheating? Have you opened the case, and checked the condition of the CPU fan? It sounds as if the CPU is overheating once the FPU warms up. Is your heatsink sufficient? Is it full of dust? Open it up while the machine is running and check that the fan really is spinning, and at a decent

Mersenne: Spontaneous reboots

2001-02-23 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
Hi, After being away for five days recently, I noticed that my computer (running Linux kernel 2.4.1, by the way -- 2.4.2 now) had rebooted. Just a few hours later, it rebooted again -- and that night, it rebooted _again_. If I turn off mprime (v20), the problem goes away -- the computer doesn't