[PLUG] Hardware driving me nuts!

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Fri May 4 01:48:30 UTC 2007


On Thu, 3 May 2007 17:26:15 -0700
Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> dijo:

> > > I second Drew's suggestion.  Check the CPU, heatsink, and fan.
> > > Overheating is the only explanation that seems to fit the data, although
> > > now that I think about it, why didn't memtest86 crash?

It can't be the heat. I can see the heat from the PC Health page in the
BIOS and it is very low. More to the point, the settings for "Warning
Temperature" and "Shutdown Temperature" are grayed out because they
were disabled by default and I haven't changed them. This thing could
set fire to the sun and it wouldn't shut down.

> > Memtest86 does not push the cpu.
> >
> > You could always run "make test" from OpenSSL.
> 
> The 'yes' command can push your CPU pretty hard, like this:
> 
> $ yes I am john and this is my test
> 
> It will run until you stop it with ctrl + C.

How long should I let it run?

Having said that, everyone hold your breath. I booted to Feisty, which
last time went to power off after about 15 minutes of just sitting
doing nothing. It has been sitting there running now for 30 minutes.
Cross your fingers! Throw salt over your shoulder! Sacrifice a virgin!




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