>From my experience,
Check whether CPU fan is connected. My technitian friend forgot it and I messed up
with kernel compile...
Secondly give the CPU tower case a vacation if your place is not that dusty.
Frankly I believe that the tower casemerely hides the dust on mobo rather than
preventing it.
Besides an open case stands as a pride symbol for a techy... :-))
As far as temp., anything above 50 is not normal...
Shridhar
sreangsu acharyya wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, V Suresh wrote:
>
> I would call it pretty borderline especially if its a K6. On my PC, kernel
> compilation breaks at temperatures above 72 ( but now things never go
> beyond 55 ).
>
> Get yourself a CPU fan if you dont have it already and you can also use
> the paint/paste in between the cpu and the fan. However apply it very
> sparingly, the layer has to be as thin as possible. The idea is to kill
> the air gap only.
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