On Friday 22 April 2005 4:55 pm, Pieter Hulshoff wrote:
Ok, back to my problem. It's night here now, and with the door open my system's pretty stable. If I close everything up, the temperature rises. At about 55C for the CPU, 34C for the system it hangs up. I'm not sure if those temperatures have anything to do with the reason it hangs, but those were the last few readings I got. 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.
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. 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?
Can you rearrange your hard drives to pute a little more space between them? Can you do anything with the case t allow more air flow around the drives?
I'm afraid not. I'm currently using a medium chassis with 5 HDs, a CD burner, and a DVD player. The Tagan 480W power also takes up a lot of space, especially with all those cables it comes with. I'm serious considering buying a Lian Li v2100b case to take care of these problems once and for all.
Regards,
Pieter Hulshoff
What about external slot covers for unused CD/DVD/Floppy devices? If there are any pull them out for now and see if more air gets pulled through when the door is closed. 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. Stan