Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:

When I am ripping CD's and encoding MP3 using RipperX, I start receiving the following in the logs. Things come to a crawl with and the root file system becomes unwritable. I have inspected the box and the CPU fan is working fine. Nothing feels hot at all...

media:/home/robert # tail /var/log/messages Aug 14 11:19:22 media kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold Aug 14 11:19:22 media kernel: CPU1: Running in modulated clock mode Aug 14 11:19:22 media kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode Aug 14 11:19:27 media kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold Aug 14 11:19:27 media kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold Aug 14 11:19:27 media kernel: CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode Aug 14 11:19:27 media kernel: CPU1: Running in modulated clock mode Aug 14 11:19:33 media kernel: CPU1: Temperature above threshold Aug 14 11:19:33 media kernel: CPU0: Temperature above threshold Aug 14 11:19:33 media kernel: CPU0: Runnmedia:

That last entry was over an hour ago, doesn't seem to be doing it for the past hour. Seems the messages stopped last night after my last rip and then started again this morning as soon as I started ripping again. However, I reboot and see the CPU in the BIOS is 56-57C. Then I turned it off, went out for 2-3 hours. When I got back, I went straight to the BIOS and it matched that temp within a couple of minutes after initially being 44C. So, I don't think this is directly related to ripping. The RPM of the fan generally stays at 2500-3000. Are these numbers normal? The machine is a P4 3.2GHz with 1GB RAM on a ASUS P4P800-E mb.

It sounds as if the heatsink is not properly set on the cpu, so the heat is not transfered to the heatsink. Might be too much or too little thermal paste or whatever. That temperature is definitely too high for a cpu running with little load. Sandy -- List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com