[lug] System dies occasionally - was: (no subject)

[Ian S. Nelson]

I think all Intel chipsets have it built in.  Especially later model 
high power consumption chips.  Your BIOS will tell you the temperature 
of the CPUs, after it happens, reset and check it.

So the box just appears to go to sleep?  I'd look at the power supply 
first.    

My second thoughts would be if the CPU has some kind of themal 
protection built in.  I believe the newer AMDs will shut themselves down 
if they get too hot,  I'd assume Intel chips would have something similar.

I'd also check for BIOS updates that might be available.  I had a dual 
Pentium 3 which had terrible serial port problems, the box would 
randomly lock up when I pushed a fair amount of data over it (just 
freeze hard, screen would stay on) and Tyan had a BIOS update that made 
the problem got away.  This doesn't sound like a software lock up 
though, it sound more like the hardware is shutting down for some reason.  

Ian


keith.herold at cox.net wrote:

>Intel, but I don't think this machine has a temperature monitor on the cpu's...
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>--Keith
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>>From: Rob Riggs <rob at pangalactic.org>
>>Date: 2002/06/19 Wed PM 09:41:40 EDT
>>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>>Subject: Re: [lug] System dies occasionally - was: (no subject)
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>>AMD or Intel? Have you tried logging your CPU temp to see if it's 
>>overheating? I read somewhere (sorry, no reference) of some dual-Athlon 
>>systems behaving this way when they overheat.
>>
>>-Rob
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>>keith.herold at cox.net wrote:
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>>>Howdy!  I have just started using a dual processor machine (2x 1.7G, w/3G RAM) and RH 7.1 .  Install works fine and the smp kernel (2.4.7-10smp ) appears to work, but occasionally (randomly, and not triggered by a particular application) the system goes dead (the monitor displays the 'no signal' warning) and will not wake up (the HD light just blinks, and the power light on the box is off).  I need to be able to run 8 hour+ processes (using both 
>>>CPU's), but it doesn't seem to be stable.
>>>
>>>I worked at another place that had a similar problem (not the same manufacturer though) and they were never able to resolve it.  Can anyone here help?
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