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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!news.mikom.csir.co.za!news.uoregon.edu!tezcat!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!207.79.120.3!news.mc.net!usenet From: Stephen Dolloff <vardalak@mc.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI 2.1 STOPING RANDOMLY Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:37:01 -0600 Organization: McHenryCom Lines: 29 Message-ID: <32B871F5.A67@mc.net> References: <3233cbc4.17400812@news.ni.net> <E2H0pC.I5@metrics.com> <595225$qp6@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> Reply-To: vardalak@mc.net NNTP-Posting-Host: vampyre.mc.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5459 David M. LaCroix wrote: > > Tom Haapanen (tomh@metrics.com) wrote: > > : stephen@sysconi.com wrote: > : > Has anyone seen an issue where bsdi just stops and the main screen > : > lockups with no responce at the login prompt, its happening now every > : > weekday once a day. The only way to reslove it is reboot. > : > > : > My system on Friday also rebooted on its own, any ideas would be a > : > great help > > : So it might be your power supply, but the only way to know for sure is to > : swap it. Not an expensive exercise, but a bit of a hassle. > > You ought to check up on your fans/ventilation... your CPU fan might > be dieing, (causing the CPU to overheat during heavy use?), or you > may not have enough ventilation... add another case fan, get a new > ball bearing cooling fan, or... some people add thermal grease between > the CPU and heat sink... > > If you're overclocking, ... shame on you... no wonder it's overheating. > if you aren't... maybe set the CPU to a slightly lower speed... > if this fixes the problem, you've either got a defective CPU or your > fans/heat sinks aren't working or aren't good enough. > > But then again, this could be a totally different problem. > Heat is definately one of the reasons that this used to happen for us.