On Saturday 23 April 2005 00:45, Stan Glasoe wrote:
What door? Side of the case? Door that covers CD/DVD/floppy area? If leaving it open gives you a reliable system then it is a heat and not enough air flow issue for sure.
No, the outside door. :) It's cold outside, which brings down the room temperature, and since I already opened the side of the case (it's a tad more stable that way, but not much) it helps keep the temperature down quite well. No lockup sofar...
Does your BIOS give you temperature readouts? Compare those with what gkrellm is showing you. Close the door let the internal temps get to 53C and 33C then reboot and check the BIOS readouts. If they are higher than gkrellm you can adjust gkrellm to better match the BIOS. Could be its hotter than you think.
Yes, it does. I rebooted right after checking the temperature values with gkrellm, and the BIOS gave me about the same values (1 degree lower I believe, but it did take some time to reboot as well).
Double check your hard drives. Do they report temperatures? Do a 'smartctl -a /dev/hda' through whatever for all your drives. Do they report temps?
I'm afraid not. Perhaps I should consider buying a brand other than Maxtor? Which drives do report temperatures?
Then go buy a bigger case for all these space heaters. Or buy larger and fewer internal drives or go external Firewire or USB 2 with the drives you have.
The Lian Li I mentioned has 12 HD spaces, and 7 spaces for CD/DVD players. It's a big tower, with separate compartments, and several large fans installed. The HDs go in sideways (easy to install, and keeps the cables out the way), and have a 120mm fan in front of them, with the PSU in the compartment behind it, and space for 2 more 80mm fans. I think that should help cool things down. :) Regards, Pieter