[ale] Kernel and hardware woes

[J.M. Taylor]

(john, sorry, meant to send this to the ale list)

Sounds like mine is running at least 40 degrees too hot...its run that
hot since I installed it, afaik.  It's always run over 150 F.

So maybe a bad CPU from from the beginning?

Off to the Mighty Chain Stores to see if I can solve the problem.

Thanks again, guys, I have learned a tremendous amount from this little
venture.

Jenn

John Wells said:
> 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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