Re: [SLE] why reboots my system spontaneous?
CPU temp. according to gkrellm and the cmos, 42 Celsius, rpm of the fan 4300. Temp of the housing with two fans, 32 Celsius. Wattage of the power supply, (one month old) 400 watt because I suspected my old power supply to be the cause of same problem. It had only 250 watt. Defect ram was exchanged and I check it regularly. If I check the values of gkrellm and the values that my cmos shows me they are same. Could though that the sensors are somehow defect but that is difficult to check I assume. Reason why I am looking at the software side is because I have tried to exclude hardware failures and the symptom always shows up with the use of find. I can normally see in advance when a freeze or reboot are in the make. Will next time kill the find and see if I survive the expected reboot. Any ideas how to pin down the reboot thing further. Are there any CPU hungry programs that I could run unattended in order to try to repeat the freeze/reboot? Running find in console or in ICEwm also repeats the symptoms. JM>On 12/04/2002 10:19 PM, Constant Brouerius van Nidek JM>wrote: JM>>On Gkrellm I see a 100% use of my cpu some disc JM>activity JM>How are your CPU fans? I would suspect overheating, JM>usually seen with a JM>CPU intensive app running, or possibly Power Supply, as JM>the CPU would JM>draw more current as its temp goes up, coupled with the JM>HD drain on the JM>PS, especially if it is a bit underpowered. But it JM>does sound like JM>hardware to me. -- NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.
You could try enabling or disabling power management functions in the bios. Chris Geske LIMS Manager Northern Lake Service, Inc. email: lims@newnorth.net
-----Original Message----- From: Constant Brouerius van Nidek [mailto:constant@indo.net.id] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:06 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] why reboots my system spontaneous?
CPU temp. according to gkrellm and the cmos, 42 Celsius, rpm of the fan 4300. Temp of the housing with two fans, 32 Celsius. Wattage of the power supply, (one month old) 400 watt because I suspected my old power supply to be the cause of same problem. It had only 250 watt. Defect ram was exchanged and I check it regularly. If I check the values of gkrellm and the values that my cmos shows me they are same. Could though that the sensors are somehow defect but that is difficult to check I assume.
Reason why I am looking at the software side is because I have tried to exclude hardware failures and the symptom always shows up with the use of find. I can normally see in advance when a freeze or reboot are in the make. Will next time kill the find and see if I survive the expected reboot. Any ideas how to pin down the reboot thing further. Are there any CPU hungry programs that I could run unattended in order to try to repeat the freeze/reboot? Running find in console or in ICEwm also repeats the symptoms.
JM>On 12/04/2002 10:19 PM, Constant Brouerius van Nidek JM>wrote:
JM>>On Gkrellm I see a 100% use of my cpu some disc JM>activity
JM>How are your CPU fans? I would suspect overheating, JM>usually seen with a JM>CPU intensive app running, or possibly Power Supply, as JM>the CPU would JM>draw more current as its temp goes up, coupled with the JM>HD drain on the JM>PS, especially if it is a bit underpowered. But it JM>does sound like JM>hardware to me.
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The 02.12.04 at 23:05, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Any ideas how to pin down the reboot thing further. Are there any CPU hungry programs that I could run unattended in order to try to repeat the freeze/reboot? Running find in console or in ICEwm also repeats the symptoms.
Perhaps not CPU intensive, but HD intensive. Perhaps bad sectors :-? Try to dump hd partitions to /dev/null. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
I've just had this with two different computers. One at home and one at work. In both cases the spontaneous reboots were being caused by faulty IBM IDE hard drives. Testing the drives using their DFT didn't show up any errors but they caused spontaneous reboots in both machines. Replacing these drives with new ones stopped the problem. Sean Akers
I would still think that it's some type of Power Management function of the bios, trying to power down the hardrives after a certain amount of time, and the IBM drive doesn't handle the bios call correctly so the system reboots. But, I've never had much luck with IBM harddrives or WD drives either. chris
-----Original Message----- From: Sean Akers [mailto:sean@akers-online.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 1:36 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] why reboots my system spontaneous?
I've just had this with two different computers. One at home and one at work. In both cases the spontaneous reboots were being caused by faulty IBM IDE hard drives. Testing the drives using their DFT didn't show up any errors but they caused spontaneous reboots in both machines. Replacing these drives with new ones stopped the problem.
Sean Akers
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On 12/05/2002 12:05 AM, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Any ideas how to pin down the reboot thing further. Are there any CPU hungry programs that I could run unattended in order to try to repeat the freeze/reboot?
Try installing the src.rpm of a good size package, for example kdelibs, then recompile with rpm -bb --target=ix86 (replace x with your arch) xxx.spec. I used kdelibs as a good example as on my system (k6-3 400), kdelibs took over 2 hours to recompile. This is CPU intensive and will be a good test. HTH -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
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