[ale] Kernel and hardware woes

[Greg]

132F CPU and 87F motherboard are my temps and I have almost the exact same
processor as you do - but all of my problems are just run of the mill MS OS
related.  All Athlons run hot it seems.

Have you flashed/updated your BIOS ?? and checked your IDE connections (if
you have the infernal onboard-BIOS RAID) ?

Hope that things come out ok

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of J.M.
> Taylor
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 3:57 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Kernel and hardware woes
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>
> 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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