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