Ron Lau wrote:
I have a little Shuttle PC with an AMD Athlon64, and it wouldn't shutdown on its own, but if I turned it off it would not come back on for at least 6 hours.
I had the bios controlling the fan speed, (the Shuttle PC uses a heat pipe) set to automatic depending on CPU temp. The problem was the fan never went higher than low speed. The CPU temp was never reported being "hot". I set the fan to be high all the time and have not had a problem since.
I would guess that the temperature is much higher than whats actually being reported, or that AMD Athlon chips are not really suited for the temps listed in their specs.
R.
I used to have an XP2000+ that similarly I had to remove the power plug, but only for a few seconds, eventually the CPU died, the heatsink just about fell into my hand, next time around I double checked it was securely in place. I have a feeling that the specs are not always to be relied on. Since I replaced the heatsink/fan on the Mandrake box, I've had no reoccurrence of the shutdown, I don't know what the temp was before it powered off, but the BIOS showed 44 degs when powered back on, so it may have cooled down by then. sensors return:- XP3000+ CPU Temp (AMD): +25°C (high = +80°C, hyst = +75°C) vid: +1.650 V (VRM Version 9.0) XP2800+ which had the problem, pity I didn't check sensors until after the new heatsink and fan was fitted. CPU Temp (AMD): +25°C (high = +60°C, hyst = +50°C) vid: +1.650 V (VRM Version 9.0) Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====