On Sunday 24 April 2005 15:20, Sid Boyce wrote:
Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
So, if all my temperature sensors indicate the temperature within my system is 55C or below, is it still likely to conclude that heat is the problem? Should I consider replacing parts, or should I just try to reduce the temperature in stead? How can I find out which part is failing because of high temperatures? This is always difficult and can be expensive to solve, I've had a CPU heatsink that wasn't properly seated and the CPU died shortly after. I had lockups on another box, changed the memory, then the HD which got corrupted and finally found it was the IDE port on the motherboard that had died when the HD and cdrom on IDE0 wouldn't work, but were OK on IDE1. On a third box, solid lockups, changed the CPU and later it wouldn't boot up, bad motherboard. Running memtest will give you a good idea if it's bad RAM.
Well, it's been completely stable now that the temperature in the room has dropped (nice weather outside, so the door's open:). Below 53C on my CPU/37C on my system I don't experience any crashes. Above that it's likely to crash. Memtest didn't show any problems, but the temperature isn't very high during such tests either. Changing my ramtiming to 266 MHz didn't help though, so I'm pretty sure it's not a RAM problem. Any thoughts? Regards, Pieter