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On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 10:00 -0400, Robert Crawford wrote: |
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> > > I have an old IDE drive, maybe I can squeeze Gentoo on it for testing. |
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> > > Bob has a good idea too regarding the CPU compound under the heat-sink |
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> > > but at CPU temp. 39C I don't see how that could cause any problem. |
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> > > #Joseph |
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> No matter what the temp sensors are reading, your problem definitely sounds |
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> like it's heat related. Temp sensor readings can, and often are not accurate, |
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> sometimes to an amazing degree. I don't know what type of sensor your cpu |
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> uses, but if it's the type under the cpu, it might not be in good contact |
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> with the cpu itself, thus giving false readings, I wouldn't be surprised if |
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> your cpu temp was really over 50C. In my experience, temps over 50C. with |
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> AMD 32bit cpus start giving problems like this, no matter what AMD says about |
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> it. Seeing as how you have an AMD 64, I'm not sure about the sensor type- all |
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> I'm saying is that the readings can vary wildly, and are not to be trusted, |
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> especially considering your current problems. |
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> Robert Crawford |
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Now I tend to lean towards your solution. |
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It could be heat related. |
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I've disable on-board network and add standard PCI card on a IRQ3 |
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(separate IRQ); so the SATA controller has its own IRQ as well. |
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The computer freesed once during "emerge sync" without any error |
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message, and with error during emerge Apache. |
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#Joseph |
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