Hi, Assumptions are a dangerous thing. you poppped the lid, and the fan is "going". But is the fan going at the normal speed ? Does the fan have dust in it, and is operating at 25% of normal speed?
What is the mechanism for the disk drive partition table causing the cpu to overheat? At worst, the disk drive is causing the CPU to run at 100%. To be honest, I find this hard to believe. Diagnostics - what does top say? What does dmesg say. Is the cpu running at 100% ? A computer "should" be able to cope with the CPU running at 100% for several hours. Is the power supply on the way out, and not delivering enough power to the cpu fan ? Derek. ========================== On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Wesley Parish wrote: > I've got a problem. I thought at first it was a hardware problem - my Linux > box's CPU getting overheated - but I'm not so sure now. > > To be truthful, I've popped the lid off the side to check that the CPU's fan > is actually going, which it is; that may have something to do with it. > > But lately I'm wondering if the cause mightn't be partition/filesystem > confusion and corruption. Cause - /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda5 both point to the > same entity. Should I delete /dev/hda1's entry in the partition table and > change /dev/hda5's to bootable? -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. IndraNet Technologies Ltd. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +64 3 365 6485 Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
