On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Gonzalo Servat wrote:
On 7/08/2003 9:40 PM +1000, Patrick Lesslie wrote:^^^^^^^^^^
> I have a very similar system, (Athlon 1800+, Matrox G550 dualhead) > and apparently the same problem. I have heard that Athlons like this > suffer from overheating, so I assumed it was that. > > It freezes sometimes when there is a lot of system activity, so I put > in more fans. While it hasn't helped much, I haven't ruled out > overheating. > > But I've never tried ACPI modules. It sounds good to me ....
I've tried removing the G400 too just incase it was the video card overheating (I replaced it with a PCI S3) but it froze too (rather quickly I might add). I also ran lm-sensors overnight and left it as "sticky" on my desktop and on the upper layer, so that if it freezes I'll see what temperature it last recorded. It was 0C degrees when it crashed last night.
zero centigrade? no wonder it froze! (sorry... I couldn't resist)
On a more serious note, isn't there a lower temp limit as well as a high one? Where I live, low temperatures are never a problem, and I've never heard of machines dying from low temps., but presumably it's possible.
Lower temp limit is +20C and max is +60C so you could be right. At the moment it's sitting on -29C (so it says anyway).. but it's not freezing, yet.. I had another freeze this morning.. ggrrrrr!
Regards, Gonzalo
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