On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote: > The system has been up for "32 minutes" according to uptime, and they > are actually /not/ noticeably hot, just slightly above "cold metal" > temperature. Large shiny pieces of copper-colored metal, large enough > to /look/ like they should be hot. But right now, they're not. > > OTOH, maybe during a kernel compile they warm up. The set6x86 thing > sets the chip to "suspend on halt" which is supposed to cool things > down a lot. Total CPU usage since bootup is 5.8 %.
If you are using set6x86 to enable hlt mode then those should be very cool to the touch. Boot Win95 or remove it. When you compile a kernel it warms up everything (power usage rises to 10-20Watts) because the processor is no longer in suspend mode, which uses very little power. Basically if you are having cooling problems then you should try to get it as hot as possible and then do what you can to cool it down until it stops failing then turn on the suspend features. That will give you a pretty good assurance that it will not fail. I am lucky in that the 3 large heat sinks on the voltage regulators are directly beside the cpu so some of the air motion generated by the cpu fan spills over onto the heat sinks, I have even heard of special fans that increase this. Another thing you might want to do is to put another fan in the front section of the case blowing air in Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
