[PLUG] Newly assembled machine overheating

[Galen Seitz]

Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:

> Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> 
> >
> > I'll try again and see how far I get before an alarm goes off.
> >
> I got farther in the SuSE install this time, but not much. The alarm
> is a repeating beep from the case speaker with a duration of about 1
> second on and one second off. When the alarm went off, I pressed the
> case reset button. The BIOS reported the chip temperature as 46 deg C
> / 111 deg F. While that might not be too hot for the chip, something
> smells electrically warm.
> 
> Any other ideas of what to check?

This is just a guess, but could it be an fan RPM alarm?  It's possible
that something like lm-sensors is deciding that the fan speed can be
reduced, and that's tripping the BIOS fan RPM alarm.  Try looking at
the fans while you are doing the install.

galen