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On 6/30/06, Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca> wrote: |
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> Hardware problems come up here occasionally & experiences deserve swapping. |
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> Gentoo involves much exercise of the CPU, sometimes making it sweat a lot. |
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> My AMD 2500+ CPU (installed 2003) has been getting hotter & the fan slower. |
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> Here in the summer heat of S Ontario, where my workroom is >= 25 C , |
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> it had been running at a steady 64 C for a couple of weeks (was 55 C ). |
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> When I tried to emerge GCC 4.1.1 , it reached > 75 C & the box died; |
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> several attempts, the same auto switch-off. No fans to fit at the store |
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> & all available CPUs are 64-bit nowadays, ie build another machine. |
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> So I opened up the box, removed the fan & the heat-sink, |
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> blew & wiped all the dust away, smeared on some silicon heat-conductor |
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> carefully kept from the original package 3 years ago, put it back together. |
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> Now the fan is running at 4400 RPM (was 4000 ) & the CPU is at 51 C , |
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> rising only to 58 C while successfully compiling GCC 4.1.1 . |
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> Hopefully, I won't need to build a new machine till well into 2007 . |
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I have a Pentium IV 2.6GHz (HP pavilion notebook), I used to have temp |
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issues, specially compiling, also, the battery was being drained fast. |
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I followed Gentoo guide in acpi and cpufreqd, created some VERY |
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specific rules, and never saw my note get too hot again (73C is the |
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shutdown temp). At high load, it gets to 66C and the cpufreqd daemon |
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puts the CPU at 2.2 or 2.4GHZ, and the temperature gets stable, even |
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with the fans semi-blocked. This also granted more battery lifetime, |
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and now it stays 2 hours wake with no problems (before, iddle, it |
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would last 45 min). |
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Daniel da Veiga |
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Computer Operator - RS - Brazil |
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