From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 1 3:21:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F83937B71B for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 03:21:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 1 Mar 2001 11:20:56 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:20:56 +0000 From: David Malone To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sig-11's and Spontaneous Reboots Message-ID: <20010301112056.A80738@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200103011025.f21APMm01783@cwsys.cwsent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103011025.f21APMm01783@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:24:32AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:24:32AM -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > stay up for longer than 12 hours. I discovered that the cooling fins > in the CPU fan had been clogged with dust. Removing the CPU (with > appropriate anti-static measures) and vacuuming out the CPU fan with > the narrow vacuum nozzle over the fan and around the CPU fan fins > solved my problem. We often re-oil fans, which helps quite alot too. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message