On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 14:17, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 24 February 2003 05:05 pm, flacycads wrote: > > Since Praedor seems to be having many weird problems as posted on the list, > > I'm thinking it might be a power supply and/or temperature problem. The ... I've had that thought as well.
> Hmmm. I always spring for the super cooling fan on my (AMD) cpus. I have a > huge double fan cooler with heat compound. My power supply is a bit tepid, a > 250 Watt job that I will replace with my next paycheck, but the fan is fine. > I also have an extra case fan installed. I cannot recall what cooling system > resides on my chipset...I believe it is a large(ish) heatsink instead of a > fan. > Going from 250W to 300W cured the stability problems on my 900MHz Athlon, which had frequently manifested as inability to compile things like kernels and XFree86. > I don't have lm_sensors. Highly recommended, though a big PITA to set up. > > It would seem odd, however, that this heat effect is only apparent in 9.0 with > 2.4.19 or 2.4.21 kernels. There were no problems of this sort in 8.2 with > the 2.4.18 kernel. There is also a difference in the nature of the problems > wrt usb between 2.4.19 and 2.4.21 such that it makes me suspect a change in > the kernel code rather than a problem with hardware, per se. > that too. 2.4 has been a kind of rocky road as far as the word "stable" is usually used, actually had me considering *BSD for a bit until I installed the stuff on some systems.
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