On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Simon Hollenbach <ionpowe...@googlemail.com > wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 18:22 -0500, shawn wilson wrote: > > > so.... for next time, is there any software to reset hardware alarms? > > i know there's ipmi stuff, but i don't have an ipmi card for this > > computer. when i googled, i found a man page for 'hwreset' but i > > didn't find anything with 'apt-cache search' (on either the kubuntu > > install or a debian box). > > Hi Shawn, > those alarms are useful and usually have a cause, maybe your fan did > spin too slow for BIOS, that happened to me at some point, having a > temperature-controlled fan and a MB caring about its CPU-Fan-Speed. And > I think they don't go away because the guys who made it thought it was a > good idea to turn your system off immediately if this noise appears. You > should find the cause of your alarm and by eliminating that you minimize > the probability you'll hear that ever again. > > Sorry if I misunderstood, I just don't want you to harm a system running > debian :) > > first, fear not - it's not "debian" it's kubuntu :) second, where do i find the cause of this alarm? i looked in my the log files of when it started (well, kern, messages, syslog) and sent along the only thing i saw... now, this was a $400 supermicro motherboard when i bought it a few years ago, so i suppose the bios might have a logging mechanism (like i've seen on some dells). how would i access that? i agree that i should get notified of messed up things. however, if something happens (ie, ram issue that ecc catches) i should be notified about it and allowed to go about my day. just saying, i think i lost quite a bit of sanity listening to that thing for over an hour.
