Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:51:10 -0500 (EST) From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> To: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disappointed with version 6.0 Message-ID: <20060315185110.50311.qmail@web60021.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <44184B03.7060706@dial.pipex.com>
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--- Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > Peter wrote: > > >Right now I am running the 40 GB and the 200 GB IDE drives as master > >and slave on the primary controller and the CDROM as master on the > >secondary. The USB and serial ports are working. I concluded that > the > >300 GB disk was bad so I am returning it. Currently I can say the > only > >problem I am experiencing is that the system will not come back up > >after a (simulated) power failure (I'm using a UPS) even though I > tell > >it to do so in the BIOS. Another point is that while in the BIOS > the > >CPU temperature shows around 45 C which does not seem possible. > > > > > [I think I got some attributions wrong in my original reply. > Apologies]. > > 45 is awfully hot. My norm is ~25 never even getting to 30, but I > have > a monster heatsink with a slow/quietish 120mm fan. However, even an > amd64 4000 with stock heatsink/fan doesn't get much above 40 for me > at > normal room temperatures. > > There are only three possibilities 1) the BIOS is lying - quite > possible and an update may fix that I have the latest BIOS installed. > 2) the cooling in your case sucks (or doesn't suck enough :-)) No, I have a decent heatsink and a 120 mm chassis fan. I touch the heatsink and it is not even warm. > 3) the heatsink isn't making that good thermal > contact, but that's painful to fix compared to 1 or 2. I re-examined my heatsink and decided to redo the paste. I don't expect immediate results but I booted up and I see the temperature rise steadily from 30 to 43 in under a minute. > You could check and see what sysutils/healthd reports. It doesn't get all the > volatges correct, but gets temps that, for me, reasonably match the BIOS and > seem believable. Is it a science project or fairly simple? > (mbmon doesn't, for me, recognise the monitoring chip on > this board). If you haven't done a BIOS update, that might help your > power-up issues. I have the latest BIOS installed. -- Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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