On 6/19/2013 7:52 AM, Chris Purves wrote: > CPU fan is about three years old and while trying to debug this previously I > was running 'sensors' in a cron-job every five minutes and the CPU temp never > exceeded 60 C.
60C seems high for an Athlon especially if idle. Given that you're apparently near Moncton where recent daytime temps have been less than 21C, that's really high. Are you sure you have sensors.conf setup correctly for that CPU, and I'll guess a Winbond w83782d? Did you maybe apply to much TIM when you replaced the HSF a few years back? Did you use decent TIM? If you used silicone base TIM that might explain the high temp as well. It's more of a thermal insulator than a conductor. > PSU is near the top of my list. I will be replacing it soon barring some new > discovery. Test it first if you have a multi tester. Digital peak/hold types work best as you can easily see the swing. Make sure you test at idle and at load. Load is where you'll see the big voltage drop, if indeed the PSU is going South or is already there. Burnp6 is great for this. > It could be that the motherboard is at the end. I've had it for eight years > and it was used when I got it. My only issue is that this didn't happen > until I upgraded to wheezy. If this had started happening before the upgrade > or a week or two after the upgrade I would more readily suspect a hardware > failure. It's very likely simply coincidence. Just in case turn ACPI off in the system BIOS. Nothing else kernel related could cause lockups like this, that I'm aware of. Also, for shits and giggles remove the chassis reset switch 2 pin connector from the mobo header, along with the PC speaker. Unplug everything that's not necessary for the machine to run. Oh, one last thing. It's a PS/2 KB. Swap it with another one. I've seen DIN5 and PS/2 KBs go bad and cause this type of lockup behavior. If you're using a mechanical KVM take it out of the loop as they can cause the same behavior on occasion. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51c1c614.50...@hardwarefreak.com
