Morning Mircea,
last night I decided to try a little experiment to see if maybe it was my
system running hot. The box had been up for about a month now without a
reboot. Here is a quick breakdown of the hardware to give everyone an idea of
what this is running on:
- AMD K6-2/450 ; boxed with fan/heat-sink version
- Asus P5A Mainboard
- basic mid tower case (it does have a case fan)
- 2X 128 MB RAM (not no-name ram either)
- ATI Expert@Play98 8MB AGP video
- 2940 Ultra SCSI card
- Kingston 10/100 PCI (Tulip driver) NIC
- Sound Blaster Ensonic1371 sound card
- 1 20GB Quantum HD, EIDE
- 1 6.4 Quantum Fireball HD, EIDE
- 1 6.5 Fujitsu HD, EIDE
- Acer 40X CDrom, IDE
- External Yamaha CDBurner, SCSI
I rebooted the machine and popped into my bios to check out the temperature.
CPU = 51C/127F
Powered down the box, and used the wife's machine to check out on-line what
the recommended operating temperature range is for my chip. I wasn't able to
find exact specs, but between 60C and 70C was what was recommended for
380/400 CPUs. That took my about 10 minutes. I then yanked the side off of my
case, and proceeded to carefully vacuum the power-supply (inside and out),
the case fan and ever so gently as much of the rest of the case as I dared.
Powered it back to see that is was now running between 38C and 43C. Thought
what the hell, booted into linux, and tried to compile my kernel. Guess what?
No problems now.
So, now I have to figure out a way to keep this puppy cooler. I have a new
server case on order as I want to install two SCSI drives and want a 500Watt
power-supply. I believe the new case I am looking at can accept 2 or 3 case
fans, so I may just go that route.
Does anyone on the list (yes, I know this is not really Stormix related) know
of a really good aftermarket CPU fan for K6 chips? Beefed up case fans? Or
even what the best operating temperature range is for my CPU?
Cheers and if I hear more or come up with ideas on this, I'll keep you all
informed.
PS: on the book, I ordered the Unleashed one, and will setup a link from our
intranet to the O'Rielly one shortly.
On Monday 20 November 2000 23:34, you wrote:
> > Since I compiled kernels in hail I wouldn't think it's a library issue
> > unless you're running a mixed hail+potato .
>
> I mean hail+woody
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