Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Kevin Mark writes: After geening a snippet of an article on slashdot last year, it said that solar cells are now 48% efficient. Some extremely expensive experimental solar cells are up to 48% efficient. ...it would seem that the cost of investing in solar cells to power

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-08 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 11:52:57PM -0600, Seth Goodman wrote: Douglas Tutty wrote on Sunday, January 07, 2007 4:20 PM -0600: Most electronics are designed for an ambient (to them, not the case) temperature of 25 C max. It would be nice if we could assume that when designing hardware, but

RE: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-08 Thread Seth Goodman
Douglas Tutty wrote on Monday, January 08, 2007 8:02 AM -0600: On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 11:52:57PM -0600, Seth Goodman wrote: Douglas Tutty wrote on Sunday, January 07, 2007 4:20 PM -0600: Most electronics are designed for an ambient (to them, not the case) temperature of 25 C max.

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:06:19PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:34:55PM +0700, surachai locharoen wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:42:03AM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: I use debian etch on compact presario v4000. I

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 08:04:08AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: But houses here are either built out of corrugated steel, in which case you never put a computer in it, or concrete block + concrete roof, like ours. Because it never rains from Oct.-May the sun will heat the structure so by

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-07 Thread John Hasler
Kevin Mark writes: After geening a snippet of an article on slashdot last year, it said that solar cells are now 48% efficient. Some extremely expensive experimental solar cells are up to 48% efficient. ...it would seem that the cost of investing in solar cells to power cooling units would

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 04:03:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: yet another reason to shave the cats *outside* instead of in the house... Shave? LOL What breed are they? Or is cats a euphemism? -- Chris. == ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 08:04:08AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: The problem where I live is the ambient temperature. It is now 8AM and the temperature is 21C 70F. That is the case temp also and the mobo temp is 34C. The CPU temp is 40C. But houses here are either built out of corrugated

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:53:26AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 04:03:37PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: yet another reason to shave the cats *outside* instead of in the house... Shave? LOL What breed are they? Or is cats a euphemism? hmmm... okay, hadn't

RE: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-07 Thread Seth Goodman
Douglas Tutty wrote on Sunday, January 07, 2007 4:20 PM -0600: Most electronics are designed for an ambient (to them, not the case) temperature of 25 C max. It would be nice if we could assume that when designing hardware, but it isn't realistic. Even for a benign laboratory environment, we

[Solved] Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-06 Thread Surachai Locharoen
เมื่อ ศ. 2007-01-05 เวลา 22:57 -0800, Marc Shapiro เขียนว่า: Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I can claim firsthand experience with exactly that. Box overheated. Fried capacitors. Required new motherboard and CPU. Fortunately I was able to get a

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I've had a couple desktop psu's fail. symptoms have been intermittent hard-locks, out-of-spec voltages, difficulty when rebooting (such as power leds come on, but no POST) etc. Nothing definitive, but the problems have gone away with a new power supply. My

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Surachai Locharoen wrote: [snip] The fan (there is one) responds autonomously -- probably BIOS controlled? So does the above really matter. What is invoking the BIOS? Doing something like kernel compile I would see the CPU temp hovering between 80-100. Passive would kick in every now

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Marc Shapiro wrote: I had been hearing whining on and off from my PS for at least a few weeks. If I had paid attention to it I could have picked up a PS locally for about $35 and avoided the hassle, cost and downtime. I now You could have picked up a fan for $12. I always use my ears

Re: [Solved] Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Surachai Locharoen wrote: The heat increase because cpu run in full speed. So I enable cpufreq The temperature increase is because the machine is having problems getting rid of heat. scaling and install cpufreqd deamon The cpufreqd control cpu frequency by rule in configuration file. So I

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-06 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:26:42PM -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I can claim firsthand experience with exactly that. Box overheated. Fried capacitors. Required new motherboard and CPU. Fortunately I was able to get a similar MB, only slight upgrade,

RE: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-06 Thread Seth Goodman
Mike McCarty wrote on Saturday, January 06, 2007 7:48 AM -0600: The two most common causes of PS failure are spikes on the AC and failing fans or otherwise obstructed air flow. Transients in the AC line causing damage to power supplies is a design issue for the supply. We have known for years

RE: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-06 Thread Seth Goodman
Surachai Locharoen wrote on Saturday, January 06, 2007 12:42 AM -0600: polling_interval was set to 2, I changed this to 30 and observed that sometimes the CPU temp spiked at 102, 105, 107 but for no more than 1 second then immediately dropped back to sub-100. No instability, so could be a

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-06 Thread Nigel Henry
On Saturday 06 January 2007 18:53, Seth Goodman wrote: Mike McCarty wrote on Saturday, January 06, 2007 7:48 AM -0600: The two most common causes of PS failure are spikes on the AC and failing fans or otherwise obstructed air flow. Transients in the AC line causing damage to power supplies

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Seth Goodman wrote: Mike McCarty wrote on Saturday, January 06, 2007 7:48 AM -0600: The two most common causes of PS failure are spikes on the AC and failing fans or otherwise obstructed air flow. Transients in the AC line causing damage to power supplies is a design issue for the supply.

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 04:19:40PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Seth Goodman wrote: Mike McCarty wrote on Saturday, January 06, 2007 7:48 AM -0600: The two most common causes of PS failure are spikes on the AC and failing fans or otherwise obstructed air flow. Transients in the AC line

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:34:55PM +0700, surachai locharoen wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:42:03AM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: I use debian etch on compact presario v4000. I add temperature monitor to my panel. I see the temperature is hight around 70-80 C and sometime os is

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Marko Randjelovic
surachai locharoen wrote: it has sound woe woe weo -- Than fan of your CPU is not working well. Just to make sure, if you don't have windows, try Knoppix or some other CD bootable distro. If it is the same, you should replace the fan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 05 January 2007 09:57, Marko Randjelovic wrote: surachai locharoen wrote: it has sound woe woe weo -- Than fan of your CPU is not working well. Just to make sure, if you don't have windows, try Knoppix or some other CD bootable distro. If it is the same, you should replace the

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Mike McCarty
surachai locharoen wrote: it has sound woe woe weo It's difficult to know exactly what that sound would be, but my guess is that you have a bearing which is going out. These tend to make periodic squealing, humming, or rattling noises. Sometimes they make a squeal which changes in tone or

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:34:55PM +0700, surachai locharoen wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:42:03AM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: I use debian etch on compact presario v4000. I add temperature monitor to my panel. I see the temperature is hight around 70-80 C and

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Surachai Locharoen
เมื่อ ศ. 2007-01-05 เวลา 14:06 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom เขียนว่า: Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:34:55PM +0700, surachai locharoen wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:42:03AM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: I use debian etch on compact presario v4000. I add temperature

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 02:06:19PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:34:55PM +0700, surachai locharoen wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:42:03AM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: I use debian etch on compact presario v4000. I add temperature

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Friday 05 January 2007 09:57, Marko Randjelovic wrote: surachai locharoen wrote: it has sound woe woe weo -- Than fan of your CPU is not working well. Just to make sure, if you don't have windows, try Knoppix or some other CD bootable distro. If it is the same,

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Surachai Locharoen
เมื่อ ศ. 2007-01-05 เวลา 18:40 -0800, Marc Shapiro เขียนว่า: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Friday 05 January 2007 09:57, Marko Randjelovic wrote: surachai locharoen wrote: it has sound woe woe weo -- Than fan of your CPU is not working well. Just to make sure, if you don't have

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I can claim firsthand experience with exactly that. Box overheated. Fried capacitors. Required new motherboard and CPU. Fortunately I was able to get a similar MB, only slight upgrade, so I was able to use my old memory and didn't have to replace

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:26:42PM -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I can claim firsthand experience with exactly that. Box overheated. Fried capacitors. Required new motherboard and CPU. Fortunately I was able to get a similar MB, only slight upgrade,

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Surachai Locharoen
เมื่อ ศ. 2007-01-05 เวลา 21:56 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West เขียนว่า: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:26:42PM -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I can claim firsthand experience with exactly that. Box overheated. Fried capacitors. Required new motherboard

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I can claim firsthand experience with exactly that. Box overheated. Fried capacitors. Required new motherboard and CPU. Fortunately I was able to get a similar MB, only slight upgrade, so I was able to use my old memory and

How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-04 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I use debian etch on compact presario v4000. I add temperature monitor to my panel. I see the temperature is hight around 70-80 C and sometime os is shutdown automatically. The cpu load is low. It run at 100% for some time interval. When I run window os this problem is gone. My laptop is cool and

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-04 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:42:03AM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: I use debian etch on compact presario v4000. I add temperature monitor to my panel. I see the temperature is hight around 70-80 C and sometime os is shutdown automatically. The cpu load is low. It run at 100% for some time

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-04 Thread surachai locharoen
my cpu temperature? On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:42:03AM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: I use debian etch on compact presario v4000. I add temperature monitor to my panel. I see the temperature is hight around 70-80 C and sometime os is shutdown automatically. The cpu load is low. It run