Hardware problems come up here occasionally & experiences deserve swapping.
Gentoo involves much exercise of the CPU, sometimes making it sweat a lot. My AMD 2500+ CPU (installed 2003) has been getting hotter & the fan slower. Here in the summer heat of S Ontario, where my workroom is >= 25 C , it had been running at a steady 64 C for a couple of weeks (was 55 C ). When I tried to emerge GCC 4.1.1 , it reached > 75 C & the box died; several attempts, the same auto switch-off. No fans to fit at the store & all available CPUs are 64-bit nowadays, ie build another machine. So I opened up the box, removed the fan & the heat-sink, blew & wiped all the dust away, smeared on some silicon heat-conductor carefully kept from the original package 3 years ago, put it back together. Now the fan is running at 4400 RPM (was 4000 ) & the CPU is at 51 C , rising only to 58 C while successfully compiling GCC 4.1.1 . Hopefully, I won't need to build a new machine till well into 2007 . -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- [email protected] mailing list
