Hi folks , Have a hardware problem. My pc is over heating and locking up or rebooting on me. Its a generick pc with asus p5 motherboard with amd 400 cpu and 128 meg ram 10 gig drive , agp viper v550 vidio , creative 5x DVD with pci decoder card and cdrom. Nice box and I want to keep using it. the cpu fan is working / turning and the power suppplu fan is working as well. I have taken the top cover off and it has not rebooted or locked up on me since , si it is a heating problem with summer banging at the door. Any solutions or ideas on this. I cant keep the cover off as my two kids use the machine and I dont want there little hand in side of it. BG and MS make life hard enough as is with this dual boot. Funny thin is that linux does not complian and act funny. But when it realy over heats the buzazer sounds as it has some sort of bios/harware heat alarm.
How many fans do you have in the box. I would suggest one fan pulling outside air in an one fan exhausting the warm/hot air out, put the incoming fan in front an the exhausting one in the back. I always install two or more fans in the case for cooking. just a suggestion. At 01:04 PM 6/21/2001 -0400, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
Hi folks ,
Have a hardware problem.
My pc is over heating and locking up or rebooting on me. Its a generick pc with asus p5 motherboard with amd 400 cpu and 128 meg ram 10 gig drive , agp viper v550 vidio , creative 5x DVD with pci decoder card and cdrom. Nice box and I want to keep using it.
the cpu fan is working / turning and the power suppplu fan is working as well.
I have taken the top cover off and it has not rebooted or locked up on me since , si it is a heating problem with summer banging at the door.
Any solutions or ideas on this. I cant keep the cover off as my two kids use the machine and I dont want there little hand in side of it. BG and MS make life hard enough as is with this dual boot. Funny thin is that linux does not complian and act funny. But when it realy over heats the buzazer sounds as it has some sort of bios/harware heat alarm.
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
My pc is over heating and locking up or rebooting on me. Its a generick pc with asus p5 motherboard with amd 400 cpu and 128 meg ram 10 gig drive , agp viper v550 vidio , creative 5x DVD with pci decoder card and cdrom. Nice box and I want to keep using it.
AMD K6-2/3 CPUs are suspectible to heat build up inside a case. The best option is to get a new case with a fan in the bottom front (sucking air in) and a fan in the top back (sucking air out). Getting a large case will allow better air circulation between the different components. On really hot days, do your computer a favor and leave it off until the room temperature cools down. Christopher Reimer
On Thursday 21 June 2001 15:09, Christopher wrote:
AMD K6-2/3 CPUs are suspectible to heat build up inside a case. The best option is to get a new case with a fan in the bottom front (sucking air in) and a fan in the top back (sucking air out). Getting a large case will allow better air circulation between the different components. On really hot days, do your computer a favor and leave it off until the room temperature cools down.
Also make sure you put thermal grease between the CPU and heat sink. My extra fans in the case were unable to stop the overheating, but after I put thermal grease in, I never had a problem again. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 Professional KDE 2.0.1 KMail 1.1.99 Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ***************************************************
On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
On Thursday 21 June 2001 15:09, Christopher wrote:
AMD K6-2/3 CPUs are suspectible to heat build up inside a case. The best option is to get a new case with a fan in the bottom front (sucking air in) and a fan in the top back (sucking air out). Getting a large case will allow better air circulation between the different components. On really hot days, do your computer a favor and leave it off until the room temperature cools down.
Also make sure you put thermal grease between the CPU and heat sink. My extra fans in the case were unable to stop the overheating, but after I put thermal grease in, I never had a problem again.
A small note here regarding thermal grease and AMD K6-2/3 CPUs. If you have an OEM CPU, you will need the thermal grease. If you have a boxed CPU with the three-year warrantry, removing the heat sink and thermal glue will void your warrantry. I had a boxed CPU and it worked flawlessly as long as I as the case fans were working and I keep the computer shutdown on really hot days. Christopher Reimer
1. Get a larger heatsink for the CPU. Do not know where you got your system from, but some manufacturers neglect this. 2. Case fans? Take a check through your local computer store, they should have a good selection of cooling. Some even go to the extent of using a water cooled system with peltier, but its expensive... 3. Situation, direct sunlight can have an adverse effect. Matt -- "The only thing complex about Linux are the users themselves." On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
Hi folks ,
Have a hardware problem.
My pc is over heating and locking up or rebooting on me. Its a generick pc with asus p5 motherboard with amd 400 cpu and 128 meg ram 10 gig drive , agp viper v550 vidio , creative 5x DVD with pci decoder card and cdrom. Nice box and I want to keep using it.
the cpu fan is working / turning and the power suppplu fan is working as well.
I have taken the top cover off and it has not rebooted or locked up on me since , si it is a heating problem with summer banging at the door.
Any solutions or ideas on this. I cant keep the cover off as my two kids use the machine and I dont want there little hand in side of it. BG and MS make life hard enough as is with this dual boot. Funny thin is that linux does not complian and act funny. But when it realy over heats the buzazer sounds as it has some sort of bios/harware heat alarm.
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I keep my system cool with the sort of drive cooler pictured on http://storagereview.com/articles/9809/cooling_images/justcool1.html Instead of mounting it on a disk, I placed it between my cdrom en cdrw drive. It blows right to my cpu and from there to the openings of the power supply. The temperature of my system is always about ten degrees higher than the outside temperature, my cpu has never been hotter than 41 dg (Celsius).
From StarTux to Samy Elashmawy and suse-linux-e@suse.com about Re: [SLE]...:
1. Get a larger heatsink for the CPU. Do not know where you got your system from, but some manufacturers neglect this.
2. Case fans? Take a check through your local computer store, they should have a good selection of cooling. Some even go to the extent of using a water cooled system with peltier, but its expensive...
3. Situation, direct sunlight can have an adverse effect.
Matt
-- "The only thing complex about Linux are the users themselves."
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
Hi folks ,
Have a hardware problem.
My pc is over heating and locking up or rebooting on me. Its a generick pc with asus p5 motherboard with amd 400 cpu and 128 meg ram 10 gig drive , agp viper v550 vidio , creative 5x DVD with pci decoder card and cdrom. Nice box and I want to keep using it.
the cpu fan is working / turning and the power suppplu fan is working as well.
I have taken the top cover off and it has not rebooted or locked up on me since , si it is a heating problem with summer banging at the door.
Any solutions or ideas on this. I cant keep the cover off as my two kids use the machine and I dont want there little hand in side of it. BG and MS make life hard enough as is with this dual boot. Funny thin is that linux does not complian and act funny. But when it realy over heats the buzazer sounds as it has some sort of bios/harware heat alarm.
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Samy Elashmawy wrote:
Hi folks ,
Have a hardware problem.
My pc is over heating and locking up or rebooting on me. Its a generick pc with asus p5 motherboard with amd 400 cpu and 128 meg ram 10 gig drive , agp viper v550 vidio , creative 5x DVD with pci decoder card and cdrom. Nice box and I want to keep using it.
the cpu fan is working / turning and the power suppplu fan is working as well.
I have taken the top cover off and it has not rebooted or locked up on me since , si it is a heating problem with summer banging at the door.
Any solutions or ideas on this. I cant keep the cover off as my two kids use the machine and I dont want there little hand in side of it. BG and MS make life hard enough as is with this dual boot. Funny thin is that linux does not complian and act funny. But when it realy over heats the buzazer sounds as it has some sort of bios/harware heat alarm.
People can get pretty fanatic about case ventilation, but it seems from your description that you don't have any case fans at all. My (very generic) box has 4 fans: the CPU fan, the power supply fan, and two case fans. I added the case fans myself. Chances are that your case has two spots for fans. Mine does -- one of them is behind a plastic cage that doesn't have an outlet easily seen from the outside. The simple solution is to buy two fans (I think 80mm is the standard size) and install them, with one blowing in and the other one blowing out. My case fans cost the king's ransom of $3 each at a computer flea market. (Purists, of course, will say that I should have bought ones capable of evacuating all the air in Notre Dame Cathedral in forty seconds.) There are two things to watch out for in getting fans: 1. Make sure they're the right size for the case. 2. Make sure the leads are long enough and of the right type. Just about all recent motherboards have two fan connectors; some have three. Fans come either with motherboard connectors or with power-supply-type connectors (the four thick pins like the ones that plug into your drives). If you use the motherboard connectors, which I prefer since the BIOS can monitor them, be sure that the power cables from the fan are long enough to reach the right place on the motherboard. Paul
We had mounted many computers with ASUS P5A and with enltight box-case. We only put fan in the amd (and homologated fan).... and works fine. But we detected last year...that several motherboars has overheating problem.....and reset the pc.... we think is a problem of the asus p5a (perhaps the termistor of the procesor in the mainboard) and the systemsss beep, beep or shutdown, in that situation we have changed the MB for a gigabyte GA5AX (and has UDMA66, P5A only 33) and works fine. We are in Spain , temperature in summer is 35-40 ºC. Saludos desde España LUis *********************************************** ** http://twips.com - info@twips.com ** ************************************************
we think is a problem of the asus p5a (perhaps the termistor of the procesor in the mainboard) and the systemsss beep, beep or shutdown, in that situation we have changed the MB for a gigabyte GA5AX (and has UDMA66, P5A only 33) and works fine.
I have like 8 to 10 of those boards an a few of the P5a-b boards an have no overheating problem with them here at my location at all, but then we have two fans in the case like I described in my earlier post, one to draw outside air in an one to exhaust the ware air out. jack malone Network Administrator EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND dba HORIZON INDUSTRIES 903-595-3444 http://www.horizonind.com
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