RE: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-18 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Mrugesh Karnik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2006 11:13 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help? It says 400W on the power supply, but at the price I've bought the case

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-18 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
And he may have a good quality one but it's dying. I had to replace a PC Power and Cooling recently. After 5 years one of the voltages was dropping low. I finally caught it because on an alert by the motherboard monitor which gave me an alarm. That system was doing the same - lock up or

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Friday 17 February 2006 04:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A long shot, but I had this happen once due to bad power supply. Is there a chance the power supply is failing? If you have an alternate supply, you may want to swap it out. Are you pushing it near its limits, perhaps with many disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Friday 17 February 2006 08:37, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I had the same issue, same MOBO and same system (almost the same, instead of the sempron I had an athlon xp), the heatsink was working fine, it kept locking for a while, then one day as you described it refused to boot, as I forced it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
On Friday 17 February 2006 05:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: 1. Tell us the Watts of the power supply (perhaps you'll have to change it) 2. Take the PC powered off and try extracting the video card and replugging it. 3. Try to change the plug you

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 17 February 2006 12:03, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 04:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A long shot, but I had this happen once due to bad power supply. Is there a chance the power supply is failing? If you have an alternate supply, you may want to swap it out.

[gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hi, I've been having issues with the computer shutting down automatically. Makes me wonder if it's an over heating problem. The system (AMD Sempron 2500+, MSI K8M800 mobo, two Seagate HDDs, an LG DVD Burner and a GB of RAM) has developed a habit of shutting down or restarting randomly, no

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread michael
A long shot, but I had this happen once due to bad power supply. Is there a chance the power supply is failing? If you have an alternate supply, you may want to swap it out. Are you pushing it near its limits, perhaps with many disk drives? Can you remove some drives as a test? On Fri, 17 Feb

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread Emanuele Morozzi
Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Hi, I've been having issues with the computer shutting down automatically. Makes me wonder if it's an over heating problem. The system (AMD Sempron 2500+, MSI K8M800 mobo, two Seagate HDDs, an LG DVD Burner and a GB of RAM) has developed a habit of shutting down or

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread brettholcomb
. For overheating clean everything well - get rid of dust, etc. and then open the case and use an external fan to blow air in the case. From: Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/02/16 Thu PM 05:47:49 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help?

2006-02-16 Thread michael
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Emanuele Morozzi wrote: Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Hi, I've been having issues with the computer shutting down automatically. Makes me wonder if it's an over heating problem. The system (AMD Sempron 2500+, MSI K8M800 mobo, two Seagate HDDs, an LG DVD Burner and a GB of RAM)