Re: [gentoo-server] lm-sensors problem

[Andrea Ferraris]

> From: "Stewart Honsberger" <blkdeath@g.o>
> Andrea Ferraris wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Mobo: ECS K7S5A Pro with Athlon XP 2000+, 512 MB RAM
> [...]
>
> It may or may not be related to your problem, but the K7S5A model line
> of ECS boards was very heavily affected by a run of bad capacitors. If
> this is being used for your server, I'd reccomend against it. We had
> about a 50-75% return/RMA rate on these boards. When replaced by a
> similar, albeit one-revision-newer ECS board we haven't seen a repeat of
> the problem.
>
> Shame, too, because it's such a versatile, inexpensive board.
>
> It's also possible that a blown capacitor could affect your ability to
> monitor with lm_sensors, but in my experience the computer simply
> becomes unstable or unbootable. In some cases, such as my own
> workstation, a capacitor literally exploded from the board and flew
> several feet out of the (lid-less) case.

The Big Bang! ;-)
It seems that I'm more lucky. The system is running since 2 weeks
without trouble. I've compiled really all (Gentoo install from stage 1), 
I ran piozone and bonnie++ to test the disks throughput, recompiling 
the kernel 60 times without pause (to test the RAM; the system load
was at about 4) and I didn't get any error. 
>From the BIOS the processor was at about 50 C and the MB at about
40 C (a litle warmer than I like, but the case is a midi tower and there 
are in 5 SCSI disk 7200 RPM; maybe I'll add a fan).
Now I've compiled the 2.6.1 kernel and installed and compiled the 
lm-sensors for such kernel and they works, it is, sensors-detect worked
and now they can show many wrong data and use the ISA module, but 
that seems normal, I have to adjust that behaviour with some parameters
to pass to the i2c modules.

Thx and regards,
                                Andrea Ferraris