Re: [gentoo-user] Unexpected Power Loss!

[Willie]

I will try monitoring the temp tomorrow. It will take me rebuilding the
kernel, I know that I left everything for monitoring hardware out. As for
the thermal compound. That was all changed yesterday.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote:

> There is a thermal safety setting in the kernel somewhere ... it used to
> do this to me when a cpu heatsink came adrift ... but the cpu had to get
> quite hot to trigger it (was on an Intel core2) so it was ok until it
> tried to do real work ... instant off.
>
> Try monitoring the temperature.  Also, cpu thermal compound/tape can
> lose its effectiveness on older PC's as well as the usual dust puppies
> blocking cooling etc.  Also, depending on how it is setup, Linux might
> be running just enough hotter than windows to trigger it.
>
> BillK
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 18:33 -0800, Willie wrote:
> > I think you might be on to something. Here in Vegas it gets to be
> > about 50 at night and I like to have my window open. That is when it
> > turns off the most. I have been using this computer for years with
> > Windows and Ubuntu Linux and this is the first time it has started to
> > happen. Do you know of any setting in Gentoo that I would need to
> > change for this?
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> >         Willie wrote:
> >
> >         > Hey Everyone,
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. It
> >         > seems that whenever I am in Linux my computer will just turn
> >         > off. Not shutdown like I did "shutdown -r now". Just
> >         > completely off out of the blue at random times. I have been
> >         > reading the logs but there is nothing helpful at all. It is
> >         > never the same thing on the logs when it does just shutdown.
> >         > Sometime I can boot up and it will go off when it says
> >         > "Waiting for udev events to finish" or something like that.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > I haven't done any major upgrades in awhile, there is really
> >         > nothing different. I installed Windows last night to see if
> >         > it is a hardware thing but nope it stays on. I also tried
> >         > reinstalling Gentoo on a couple of occasions on another Hard
> >         > Drive but it just shutdown while I was getting it done.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > Any help is greatly appreciated. I really don't want to be
> >         > in Windows after I spent all that time customizing my XFCE4
> >         > desktop.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > --
> >         >
> >         > Willie Matthews
> >         > matthews.willie@×××××.com
> >         >
> >
> >
> >         Do you have a setting somewhere that when a fan gets below a
> >         certain speed it shuts down thinking the fan has failed?  I
> >         know on mine I have to turn that feature off, especially in
> >         the winter.  Sometimes my fans only turn at a couple hundred
> >         rpms.  The mobo sometimes thinks the fan has failed.  It seems
> >         to vary by brand as to what it does when this happens but I
> >         suspect something in Linux not the BIOS itself.
> >
> >         Since winders works, which is odd unto itself lol, then it has
> >         to be some setting in Linux.  I wouldn't think it would be the
> >         kernel since it usually locks up instead of cutting off.  Do
> >         you have lm-sensors installed?  I think it has the ability to
> >         do this sort of thing.  That would be IF this is causing the
> >         problem to begin with.  ;-)
> >
> >         I'm sure you will get lots of ideas on this one tho.  There
> >         can be a lot of causes.
> >
> >         Dale
> >
> >         :-)  :-)
> >         --
> >         I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you
> understood or how you interpreted my words!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Willie Matthews
> > matthews.willie@×××××.com
>
>
>
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Willie Matthews
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