On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Mike Chalmers wrote:
On 12/11/06, Matthew Saltzman mjs@ces.clemson.edu wrote:
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Recently installed FC6 on an old P-III 500MHz. At first, it would reliably do thermal shutdowns during the dependency resolution step. Also did shutdowns during memtest86.
I swapped the CPU package from one of the two slots to the other (tried to get airflow across the package back and probably shook out some dust) and it's been fine ever since.
I will try dusting it off. I still don't know why it would have never happened before. Matthew, what kind of fan did you use? Price is not an option on the fan, because that is important. But not to high. Does anyone recommend thermoelectric cooling?
This machine has a case fan at the end of a plastic tunnel that draws air past the CPU package slots. It doesn't have a heat-sink fan.
What is a reliable shutdown? I don't think the screen going black then returning me to the is a reliable shutdown, is it?
"Reliable" in the sense that it was not intermittent. My BIOS has a setting that will force power off when thermal violations are detected. That's what was doing the shutdown.
I don't think letting it overheat again is a good idea. It could break it. It is Intel P4 HT 3.0 ghz processor. Can't afford to lose that. If I did run update again and the cpu overheated, wouldn't that mean it was Linux?
Linux may make your CPU work hard, but it shouldn't cause it to overheat if the hardware is otherwise OK. See the other posts in this thread.
Kind Regards, Preston