[ale] athlon temps

[James P. Kinney III]

And what window manager were you running and which version. gnome will
lock under some horrid gconf problems and the system will hard lock.

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 19:19, Geoffrey wrote:
> John Wells wrote:
> > Geoffrey,
> > 
> > It still could be temps.  Check and see if your motherboard reads temp off
> > the die or if it has an external thermistor.  The die will naturally be a
> > *lot* higher and more accurate.  The distance can make a difference of 30
> > degrees or more.  That's why it's so difficult to gauge the true temp.  Up
> > until the last revisions of the XP motherboards, all had external
> > thermistors to my knowledge.  My Gigabyte is one of the later models that
> > reads from the die.
> 
> A little research is in order.
> > 
> > To keep mine in check, I have a Radio Shack outdoor/indoor thermometer
> > with  a thermistor running directly to the cpu, albeit not on the die.
> > 
> > I'm also surprised that your mb doesn't allow you to set critical shutdown
> > temps.  Most I've experienced for Athlons do.
> > 
> > When you say it locked up, do you mean full system freeze?
> 
> Yes, no mouse or keyboard response.  Screen was frozen, gkrellm and 
> xdaliclock both no movement.  Attempting to access the machine from 
> another on the same network, no go.
> 
> > 
> > Realistically, I think your temps are in range.
> 
> I am too, but I'm going to still do that research. :)
> 
> > 
> > John
> 
> 
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> 
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