[ale] k7s5a mb drama continues

[Dow Hurst]

Had the machine running for at least two months straight.  No downtime 
due to having a UPS.  The thermistor is on the die so the temps reported 
are good.  I've had absolutely no problems.  I have an Abit KR7A-Raid 
motherboard.  The temps on the CPU shouldn't run above 70C and 90C is 
shutdown time.  I think your temps are fine and you have another issue. 
 I even tried installing Gentoo at one point so the machine was stressed 
during the compile.
Dow


Geoffrey wrote:

> Dow Hurst wrote:
>
>> My Athlon XP1800 runs at 1.5 GHz and I have the Zalman CPU fan, a 
>> Zalman case fan, and an Enermax dual fan powersupply.  The CPU runs 
>> at 52 C and the case temp is 28 C.  These are reasonable values 
>> according to other sites and docs I've read while worrying about this 
>> stuff.
>
>
> I was okay with 50C until I received the email from ecs.  I'm back to 
> an open case with the 2' fan blowing on it.  CPU is ar 44C right now. 
> Before my current 'modification' it was running 50-52C.
>
> How long have you been running at that temperature Dow?
>
> 50C doesn't seem to be that high to me either.  I mean were talking at 
> least 30C temperature difference between the measure and the max the 
> cpu is expected to reach.  We're talking what, a 70F temperature 
> difference?  Can the cpu die actually run that much higher then the 
> sensor sitting right under it???  The AMD site noted a die temp. 
> between 85-90C as max.  Now that seems high to me, I mean 90C is what, 
> almost 200F ???
>
> http://139.95.253.214/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?St=66,E=0000000000044159173,K=3019,Sxi=15,Case=obj(3609) 
>
>
> One good note, I've built a new kernel for this box and since 
> installing it yesterday (fingers cramped from having them crossed) 
> it's not locked up yet.  I intentionally tried two separated things 
> that had locked it up consistently in the past and all was well.  The 
> two processes that pretty regularily locked it up was tuxracer 
> (yeah!!) and running the motion detection via my capture card/camera 
> with a large number of detections within a short period of time.
>
> I not comfortable yet though as I still would like to see about a more 
> reasonable solution to cooling the cpu to at least something 
> consistently below 50C.  (even though the machine is on the otherside 
> of a wall, that fan is still loud...)
>

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