Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:06:33 +0000 From: Jason Henson <jason@ec.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My computer keeps crashing Message-ID: <1106283993l.49858l.4l@BARTON> In-Reply-To: <002801c4ff4d$0ad34880$0501a8c0@SPECULUSHX1THE> (from calculus@softhome.net on Thu Jan 20 19:06:22 2005) References: <002801c4ff4d$0ad34880$0501a8c0@SPECULUSHX1THE>
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On 01/20/05 19:06:22, cali wrote: > If this is the wrong mailing list, I apologise, suggestions to a more > appropriate mailing list will be appreciated. >=20 > Reasonably recently I upgraded my hardware to the following: >=20 > Soltek SL-NV400-64 "Purple > Ray" (Socket A) Motherboard >=20 > AMD Athlon "Barton" XP3200+ > 400FSB (Socket A) CPU - OEM >=20 > Asus DRW-0402P DVD-R/RW - > Retail >=20 > Adata 512MB DDR PC3200 CAS 2.5 > Adata 512MB DDR PC3200 CAS 2.5 >=20 > Zalman Flower CNPS6000-Cu > Silent Socket A CPU Cooler - >=20 > Antec Sonata Piano Black > Quiet Case - 380W TruePower > Silent PSU >=20 > Hyundai ImageQuest Q995 19'' > Perfectly Flat CRT Monitor - > Black/Silver >=20 > Geforce FX 5200 graphics card >=20 > IBM 60GB HD >=20 > Western Digital 160GB HD >=20 > Sometimes when I run CPU intensive applications the system will > crash at seemingly unpredictable times, I have to hard reset the =20 > machine as it > is completely unresponsive, I was running an experiment in console =20 > mode and it showed me the kernel panic: > With those uptimes I would say your heat sink and fan(hsf) is to blame. =20 The old idea about amds running hot is kind of crap, any cpu will run =20 hot if not installed correctly or overclocked. You got that white =20 stuff between the cpu and hsf? I checked your hsf on the net and in silent mode it does not support =20 your cpu speed, though it does in normal higher speed fan mode. If you =20 have the fan make sure to keep it in normal mode or it may bake your =20 cpu! =20 http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=3D33&code=3D005009010 Try this command several times after you boot. Then after you boot =20 your box do it while under load. sysctl -a|grep thermal That will tell you your cpu temp, you'll need acpi on. If you did not =20 put the hsf on right it will go up and you get problems like after 5 =20 minutes or less. I set my bios heat alarm to go off and set a shutdown =20 temp too. You might want to check that stuff out in your bios too. Go =20 to amd.com and get that pdf on how to install the hsf, I made a mistake =20 a month ago when I was switching out cpus and that was my problem. Everything else looks good, but do you have some case fans? I moved a =20 120mm fan over near my cpu and my 100% load temp while folding droped =20 about 10C. I am overclocked and it was maxing out at about 58C or =20 less. Now it hardly hits 50C, usaully 48C but it might go down to 45C =20 if it is cool in my room. I wonder how it will do in the summer? :)
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