On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 05:15:01PM +0000, Dewey Hylton wrote: > > I've had this issue with the same systems. Never guessed it would > > be OpenBSD specific. What I've found to make it stop happening is > > pulling the board out and redoing the thermal paste for the CPU > > heatsink. I had found some reference indicating that the alarm I > > got might be because of overheating.
> > The difference between the boxes may be the attention to detail the > > factory worker who put it together had that day. > > Hearing that Linux doesn't trip it, I'm wondering if it's an ACPI > > difference between OpenBSD and Linux. Perhaps OpenBSD runs the CPU > > hotter before turning it back over to the BIOS on reboot? > this is great information; thanks. any idea where the temperature > reference can be found? I don't remember, it was at least a couple years ago. It was only one reference too. Most talked about listening to beep codes, which this wasn't really beep codes... > i may be able to log the cpu temperature in both operating systems in > order to compare ... Possibly, but noticed I said "before turning it back over to the BIOS". If it's a difference in OS shutdown, it will be difficult to log the temperature. --Kurt
