Ditto here - I have this motherboard in a system with fans galore (CoolerMaster CMS stacker case) and have had no heat-related issues whatsoever. Getting Suse to recognize all SATA devices is another matter, however... On Friday 20 May 2005 9:47 am, John Storrs wrote:
I built a system with the same motherboard, with normal fans. Its been running linux over 2 months now with no hardware problems. Sounds like a chipset cooling problem as you suspect.
John
On Thursday 12 May 2005 16:41, Torsten Foertsch wrote:
Hi,
2 months ago I have bought a fanless computer with an A8N SLI Deluxe board. Normally this board has a chipset fan built in. The hardware vendor exchanges this fan by a big heat sink to provide a really fanless system.
Now I have shredded the second board within 2 months. The computer works excellent over about 3 weeks. The last uptime was 22 days. Then I get errors on the 3 sata disks. The disks themselves are ok. Last time we have changed the board and all problems were gone.
I suspect the exchanged chipset fan to be the problem. The hardware vendor assures there weren't any problems with the modified board so far. He claims linux is the culprit. But I think the chip runs somewhere on it's temperature limit and after a half-live of 22 days it decays.
Who is right?
Are there any similar problems known?
Torsten Förtsch
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