Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 22:39:05 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: delerium@eagle.ais.net (Synaesthesia) Cc: walter@biostat.sph.unc.edu (Bruce Walter), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SIG's 11 and 6... Message-ID: <199607030539.WAA10663@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 02 Jul 96 20:09:27 -0500. <m0ubGRb-000VyVC@eagle.ais.net>
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>> HEAT! My pentium 120 was having the above problems. Switching out memory
>> would solve them for a day or two, but the problems would then start to
>> build up again. FINALLY I replaced the CPU fan and added a big waffle fan
>> in the front of the case and VOILA... No more SIG's for the last week.
>I've got a Pentium 133 here running 2.2-960612-SNAP, and it too was
>experiencing more or less random Segmentation Faults, Bus Errors,
>and/or Illegal Instructions. This behavior persisted despite swapping
>SIMMs several times. I finally resolved this with a strange fix:
>though the CPU can run at 133MHz, I clocked it down to 120MHz via jumper
>settings on the motherboard. I haven't had any problems with it since.
I would invest in a better heat sink and fan. You might also want to
get some heat sink compound to make a more uniform heat transfer area
between the chip surface and the heat sink surface. You can pick up
heat sink compound at any Radio Shack, in a little blue and white
tube. Well worth the couple bucks invested.
>I wonder if my problem is actually heat-related as well? Reducing the
>CPU clock may simply cause the chip to run cooler. Anyone else have
>similar troubles, or other ideas?
It's actually verified by several very fundamental laws of physics
that it will run cooler. :-)
But, since the chip is rated for 133MHz, it sounds like it's getting
_too_ _hot_, not because of the clock speed, but because the cooling
aparatus isn't doing an adequate job bring the chip down to
operational levels.
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