Guy Van Sanden wrote:
Yes, that's exactly it! The system my wife uses has an Athlon 1.333 running at 34° idle!
So it is a motherboard issue. What Bios revision are you on? I'm on 1004, I'm going to try upgrading to 1005, but there's no changelog for that revision :-(
I'll post my findings,.
Would you consider writing a support question to asus also, I'm afraid they're going to drop my query because I'm running Linux, and they're only M$ minded :-(
Thanks for your reply.
Guy
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On 17/09/2001, 12:23:34, Sune Kristensen
wrote regarding Re: [SLE] BIOS problem causes CPU overheat in Linux: Guy Van Sanden wrote:
Hello everyone
I've posted some messages to this list a while ago about my Asus A7V133A motherboard running too hot with Linux. Thanks to all of you who tried to help me!
I think I found the problem. The BIOS fails to initialize a register in my CPU to make it accept HLT instructions. With Win9x, that doesn't matter, because it doesn't generate those instructions anyway. If you use programs like CPUIDLE, they set the register correctly, and you don't see the problem.
I don't know if it only affects my board (production error), or that the problems is much wider... But I've tested with an Elite motherboard, same CPU, it runs at 34°C idle, compared to 55°C on the Asus.
This could be a major problem for all Linux users owning such a board.
Is anyone here running the same board? I would like to gather some information to solve the problem. I've posted this to Asus support also.
Kind regards
Guy Van Sanden
I have the same problem, the only difference is that the system is running windows 2000.
It is a Asus A7V133 with a 900 Mhz Athlon TBird running at 60
C with air
cooling. I can get it down to about 50 C with water cooling.
Regards
Sune Kristensen
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Can't really remember the revision number, and as that PC i not working at the moment I can not get it. But I think it is the newest one! I'll write to Asus with the question also! :-) Regards Sune Kristensen