[ale] Kernel and hardware woes

[John Wells]

172 degrees farenheit?!?!?  That's like 78 degress celcius!

Damn...that's pretty up there.  In fact, that's on the threshold of the
temp at which AMD says your CPU will die.

How long has it been running that hot?  To give you an idea, my machine's
CPU (Athlon XP 2200+) hovers between 42 and 47 degrees celcius, or 107-116
degrees farenheit.

John

J.M. Taylor said:
> James, John, Jonathan, Ryan, Greg, Jeff, et al:
>
> James, thanks for the lesson in physics, I think a thorough
> understanding of these things would help me flail around less when
> debugging hardware vs software issues.  Are you sh***ng me about cosmic
> rays? ;)  I *do* have a large, dragon shaped hole bored into the side of
> my machine, but that was done long ago and I think a more mundane
> motherboard-is-crap explanation is going to be my key.
>
> So. I can't test my memory in another box because this is the only
> machine in the house that accepts DDR.  The hard drives are fine, the
> IDE
> controllers appear to be fine. I have booted with a rescue disk and
> still get the kernel panics, fsck almost invariably produces the "Unable
> to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004"
> error, followed by all the output that I posted earlier.  As I said
> before, it's not just fsck, but that triggers it every time.
>
> So if I understand correctly, I'm down to either: CPU is bad, chipset is
> bad, motherboard in general is bad, or RAM is bad.
>
> My CPU runs REALLY hot. Really, really hot.  Hotter than I expected.
> Avg temp is 172 degrees F.  This is an AMD athlon 1.4Ghz, cooled by a
> ThermalTake somethingorother 4400rpm CPU fan.  Avg system temp is 99
> degrees F.  I don't actually know what's normal for these type
> processors.
>
> Thanks for all the input.  It is very much appreciated.
>
> Jenn
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