From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 15 18:51:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D1816A420 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:51:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: from web60021.mail.yahoo.com (web60021.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 46A0843D86 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:51:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 50313 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Mar 2006 18:51:10 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=U8/5kCwhsJCdAywyaYKdY9lebu4S8cBH9P47I4uQpIjh+sVvehFAJzIIS2gD7FRgD0zmb6u6VtcFsegV24ty8YxjB6TXTYsRajbn8hC0yPqWbP18PlgXRNRmnjvKR29Mu307fNcmS2OqVP7F/4ZZ0e26augRci3/B/nCTBwT5W8= ; Message-ID: <20060315185110.50311.qmail@web60021.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.252.85.43] by web60021.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:51:10 EST Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:51:10 -0500 (EST) From: Peter To: Alex Zbyslaw In-Reply-To: <44184B03.7060706@dial.pipex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Disappointed with version 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:51:11 -0000 --- Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Peter wrote: > > >Right now I am running the 40 GB and the 200 GB IDE drives as master > >and slave on the primary controller and the CDROM as master on the > >secondary. The USB and serial ports are working. I concluded that > the > >300 GB disk was bad so I am returning it. Currently I can say the > only > >problem I am experiencing is that the system will not come back up > >after a (simulated) power failure (I'm using a UPS) even though I > tell > >it to do so in the BIOS. Another point is that while in the BIOS > the > >CPU temperature shows around 45 C which does not seem possible. > > > > > [I think I got some attributions wrong in my original reply. > Apologies]. > > 45 is awfully hot. My norm is ~25 never even getting to 30, but I > have > a monster heatsink with a slow/quietish 120mm fan. However, even an > amd64 4000 with stock heatsink/fan doesn't get much above 40 for me > at > normal room temperatures. > > There are only three possibilities 1) the BIOS is lying - quite > possible and an update may fix that I have the latest BIOS installed. > 2) the cooling in your case sucks (or doesn't suck enough :-)) No, I have a decent heatsink and a 120 mm chassis fan. I touch the heatsink and it is not even warm. > 3) the heatsink isn't making that good thermal > contact, but that's painful to fix compared to 1 or 2. I re-examined my heatsink and decided to redo the paste. I don't expect immediate results but I booted up and I see the temperature rise steadily from 30 to 43 in under a minute. > You could check and see what sysutils/healthd reports. It doesn't get all the > volatges correct, but gets temps that, for me, reasonably match the BIOS and > seem believable. Is it a science project or fairly simple? > (mbmon doesn't, for me, recognise the monitoring chip on > this board). If you haven't done a BIOS update, that might help your > power-up issues. I have the latest BIOS installed. -- Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com