[ale] Kernel and hardware woes

[John Wells]

Make sure you have thermal paste or pad in place.  Is the heatsink you're
using spec'd to handle this processor?

John

J.M. Taylor said:
> (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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