Re: [SLE] SuSE 8.0 freeze after some time
Hi
This might be your problem. A case is required to direct the air flow for proper cooling. Having said that, many older cases are not designed to provide the cooling required for newer processors. (Do you have an Athlon?) I needed to remove the front cover of my case and add an exhaust fan to avoid system freezes. Perhaps you could point a small fan at your system and see if the problem goes away.
Yesterday I put a desktop-fan directed at the mainboard. Now it had run for 24 hours, I give it 2-3 days before i say something. I have a AMD K6-II at 233 MHz. I had it for 6 years without problem, first with Windows 95, then with SuSE 7.3 without any problem. But after upgrading to SuSE 8.0 it began to Freeze after less than 12 hours. What can be differet? If it is the cooling problem, what can i do to fix it? Pär Högberg
Yesterday I put a desktop-fan directed at the mainboard. Now it had run for 24 hours, I give it 2-3 days before i say something.
Give it something to do which will make it hot. Compile the kernel (or better yet, KDE or Openoffice), or encode a pile of wavs to mp3. If it's still running after 2 days of that, it'll be OK.
But after upgrading to SuSE 8.0 it began to Freeze after less than 12 hours. What can be differet?
Overheating problems can be really weird. I know someone who's Windows PC worked fine (is so far as they do ;o)) until he ran Winzip. That as the only application he had which would cause the thing to overheat. Tricky one to track down that because all the symptoms pointed to a broken application.
If it is the cooling problem, what can i do to fix it?
Try cleaning the dust off the CPU and heatsink - it acts like a blanket. If that doesn't work, take the heatsink/fan off and reattach it (or a better one) using a good thermal coupling paste. Or just replace the CPU - if you can find one, an old AMD chip like that will cost virtually nothing. -- 9:47am up 2 days, 2:23, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.05
On Friday 04 October 2002 03:16, Pär Högberg/Elicon wrote:
Hi
This might be your problem. A case is required to direct the air flow
for
proper cooling. Having said that, many older cases are not designed to provide the cooling required for newer processors. (Do you have an Athlon?) I needed to remove the front cover of my case and add an
exhaust
fan to avoid system freezes. Perhaps you could point a small fan at your system and see if the problem goes away.
Yesterday I put a desktop-fan directed at the mainboard. Now it had run for 24 hours, I give it 2-3 days before i say something.
I have a AMD K6-II at 233 MHz. I had it for 6 years without problem, first with Windows 95, then with SuSE 7.3 without any problem. But after upgrading to SuSE 8.0 it began to Freeze after less than 12 hours. What can be differet?
If it is the cooling problem, what can i do to fix it?
Pär Högberg
In the past I have run 95,98,NT, and various releases releases of Suse on the K6's. What I had found that at "idle" NT and Linux the processor temp was 10 to 15 degrees cooler than 95 or 98. I would suggest that you clean not only the case components but also the processor fan and heatsink. After six years of operation redoing the heat transfer compound between the cpu and heatsink would almost certainly be beneficial. At a small cost you could also install a higher capacity cpu fan. HTH Henry
The 02.10.04 at 10:16, Pär Högberg/Elicon wrote:
I have a AMD K6-II at 233 MHz. I had it for 6 years without problem, first with Windows 95, then with SuSE 7.3 without any problem. But after upgrading to SuSE 8.0 it began to Freeze after less than 12 hours. What can be differet?
If it is the cooling problem, what can i do to fix it?
Pär Högberg
Personally, I blame the kernel 2.4.x. I have been experiencing them for almost a year now: first pretty often, now perhaps one per month. In some of the crashes I have had (suse 7.3) I was able to switch to the messages console (#10), and saw the kernel dumping crash logs. Usually, kswap, klog fails. Then, services like cron or syslog dies, meaning that we will not see anything on the log files. If the crash is bad, keyboard doesn't respond, and NumLock and CapLock blinks alternatively. I have a pentium IV, and the temperature is normal. There are entries in the suse sdb about these crashes, but not too helpful. Try to disable apic in lilo (append = "disableapic). In my case, not using kdm, but gdm to log in, helped. If your video is nvidia, don't press any key while graphic mode is initializing. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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