On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 09:58:13AM -0000, Brian J. Beesley wrote:
>The fact that your heatsink feels cool(ish) suggests to me that the
>thermal bond between the processor and the heat sink has failed.
>(If the fan had failed, you'd toast your fingers making this test!)
Hmmm -- interesting. This definitely sounds like a good thing to test
out, although I'm actually not used to tinkering inside _those_ parts of
the system...
>Another possibility is that the chipset may be overheating. If the
>chipset has a cooling fan (probably a small one like those used on
>486s) is that running too?
No cooling fan, so it definitely isn't running :-)
>You could investigate this by running an
>integer-only memory thrashing program like a prime number sieve.
OK, will test :-)
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