On 11/26/06, Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[4] I proposed this solution to a user on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list - and it resolved his problem. His problem - the system would reset after getting about 1/2 way through a Solaris install. The installer was simply acting as a good system exerciser and heating up his CPU until it glitched out. After he removed the CPU fan and cleaned up his heatsink - he loaded up Solaris successfully.
I just identified and fixed exactly this symptom on my mother's Windows system, in fact; it'd get half-way through an install, then start getting flakier and flakier, and fairly soon refuse to boot at all. This made me think "heat", and on examination the fan on the CPU cooler wasn't spinning *at all*. It's less than two years old -- but one of the three wires seems to be broken off right at the fan, so that may be the problem. It's not seized up physically, though it's a bit stiff. Anyway, while the software here isn't Solaris, the basic diagnostic issue is the same. This kind of thing is remarkably common, in fact! This one has a nearly-good ending, since nothing appears to have cooked enough to be permanently ruined. Only nearly-good because I had to bend the heatsink to get the replacement 70mm fan to fit; the screw holes lined up, but the new one was physically slightly too large, about a mm, to fit on the heatsink. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/> _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss