To eliminate overheating as the source of the problem, take off the side of your case, and blow a desktop fan onto the internals while using the machine for a few hours. If the problems go away, you know it's cooling problems- if not, you have other problems. From what you've said, and my own experience, your system and/or cpu is probably overheating. Try cleaning out the dust, and check the contact of your heatsink/cpu- the contact grease will eventually go dry and lose heat transfer capability, and need to be redone. Use Artic silver, or another high quality "grease." All your symtoms are classic overheating problems.
Robert Crawford On Tuesday 07 October 2003 8:30 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > mathieu perrenoud wrote: > > Hello, > > Since two months, everything goes wrong in my pc: erratic disks, mb's > > chipset overheating... And since yesterday, my box has freezed 3 times > > (the three times during OO1.1 compilation). > > So I've decided to blame this on my mobo and to buy a new one, and I new > > CPU btw. (If you think that I'm wrong, thanks to warn me). > > I've compiled every app with the following flags: > > > > CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe > > -fomit-frame-pointer" > > > > And I'd like to just switch the new mobo and cpu "plug & play", without > > reinstalling and recompiling everything. > > My actual mother board is an asus a7v266 and my cpu an amd 1800+. > > I guess that if I don't want to recompile everything, I have to stick to > > AMD. But could I keep the old one or do I have to change my cpu if I > > change my mb? And buy new ram? > > What should I include in my kernel before installing the new card? > > > > And a stupid question to end: could it be the OO's compilation that > > freeze my box? > > Yes and no. It could be because you were compiling OO, but not OO's > fault. Building OO is a very processor intensive task. If you've already > been having problems with overheating, then the first thing I'd try is > to get better fans. Although, if this has been a problem for a while, > there is a good chance that the mobo is damaged anyway from the > overheating. Before you get the mobo, get better/more cooling fans. If > that doesn't help, get the new mobo, and you'll already have the better > fans to use with it :) > > As for the processor and RAM, it is okay to keep the old ones as long as > you know that they work fine. Try running memtest86 on your RAM to > make sure its in decent condition. Unless you're getting weird errors > and segfaults everywhere, your processor is probably fine. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
