From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 15:31:16 2005 Return-Path: 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 3202E16A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:31:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D50843D31 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:31:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BED8F619C; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:31:14 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 95040-10; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:31:12 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1111B617A; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:31:12 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41F12048.2050306@makeworld.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:31:20 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050101) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Henson References: <002801c4ff4d$0ad34880$0501a8c0@SPECULUSHX1THE> <1106283993l.49858l.4l@BARTON> In-Reply-To: <1106283993l.49858l.4l@BARTON> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My computer keeps crashing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:31:16 -0000 Jason Henson wrote: > 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. >> >> Reasonably recently I upgraded my hardware to the following: >> >> Soltek SL-NV400-64 "Purple >> Ray" (Socket A) Motherboard >> >> AMD Athlon "Barton" XP3200+ >> 400FSB (Socket A) CPU - OEM >> >> Asus DRW-0402P DVD-R/RW - >> Retail >> >> Adata 512MB DDR PC3200 CAS 2.5 >> Adata 512MB DDR PC3200 CAS 2.5 >> >> Zalman Flower CNPS6000-Cu >> Silent Socket A CPU Cooler - >> >> Antec Sonata Piano Black >> Quiet Case - 380W TruePower >> Silent PSU >> >> Hyundai ImageQuest Q995 19'' >> Perfectly Flat CRT Monitor - >> Black/Silver >> >> Geforce FX 5200 graphics card >> >> IBM 60GB HD >> >> Western Digital 160GB HD >> >> Sometimes when I run CPU intensive applications the system will >> crash at seemingly unpredictable times, I have to hard reset the >> machine as it >> is completely unresponsive, I was running an experiment in console >> mode and it showed me the kernel panic: >> > > > With those uptimes I would say your heat sink and fan(hsf) is to > blame. The old idea about amds running hot is kind of crap, any cpu > will run hot if not installed correctly or overclocked. You got that > white stuff between the cpu and hsf? I disagree (as an owner of one Athlon) The CPU came with it's own fan etc. Bios settings (voltage etc) where they should be - but still runs hot. In fact so much so that when compiling or make world, freeze happens. It's just a known fact that AMD's runs hot. I don't know if that's by design or not - nonetheless, I love mine (big old box fan and all). -- Best regards, Chris A little ambiguity never hurt anyone.