From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 25 20:32:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from krell.webweaver.net (krell.webweaver.net [206.24.105.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 799F937B43E for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xwin.nmhtech.com (xwin.nmhtech.com [208.138.46.10]) by krell.webweaver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B1820F04; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Content-Length: 2816 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000825104639.A51927@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 20:32:16 -0700 (PDT) From: "Nicole Harrington." To: Glenn Johnson Subject: RE: overheating AMD K6-2 400 Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If you are anywhere near a Fry's store, they have a very nice heat sink unit being sold for a Pent III or Zeon type of CPU, but it works fine for all socket 7 CPU's I have tried. It is huge... but very nice. It is gold, and round with the fan inside. I recommend it to anyone with heat problems on a socket 7. Also make sure your voltage setting is correct for that CPU. Nicole On 25-Aug-00 Glenn Johnson wrote: > About a year ago I purchased an AMD K6-2 400 MHz processor for my > FreeBSD system at home. It had been working fine until recently. The > last two months I have been seeing some rather strange problems like > corrupted files from cvsup, bad dependencies from a buildworld even with > a fresh object tree, and signals 4 and 10 during compilation. The last > week I have had two spontaneous reboots which caused severe file system > damage. > > I knew it was hardware trouble and I finally pinned it down to the > CPU. The problems definitely start showing up after the CPU has warmed > up a bit. It is obviously a thermal problem or at least temperature is > a factor. I checked to make sure that the CPU fan was working and it > is. I remembered people on the FreeBSD lists saying that they had to > underclock there AMD K6-2s to get them stable so I clocked this one down > to 350. The problems took a little longer to surface but still do. I > should mention that the motherboard is a FIC VA503+ and the system had > never been overclocked. I pulled the CPU out and put my old Cyrix 133 > 6x86-MX chip in. This is working fine but is slow of course. > > My questions are: Does it sound like the AMD chip is shot or can I try > to enhance the cooling somehow and still use it? Or would I be better > off getting another CPU? If I get another CPU should I get another AMD > or should I go with one of the Cyrix MII models? I would want to put in > a CPU that was at least 400 MHz. > > I know this is not specifically FreeBSD related but I have found that > the people on the FreeBSD lists are the most knowledgeable. All responses > are greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > -- > Glenn Johnson > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message nicole@unixgirl.com |\ __ /| (`\ http://www.unixgirl.com/ webmistress@dangermouse.org | o_o |__ ) ) http://www.dangermouse.org/ // \\ ---------------------------(((---(((----------------------------------------- -- Powered by Coka-Cola and FreeBSD -- -- Strong enough for a man - But made for a Woman -- -- OWNED? MS: Who's Been In/Virused Your Computer Today? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message