If you are using the thermal pad, tape, or grease that came with the stock heatsink, you might try using some arctic silver compound instead. It's good for a 3-5C. drop from the regular stuff. Sometimes even the AMD approved stock heatsinks don't do the job, and you might need to get a better one (assuming heat is the problem). I build a lot of computers, and with AMD cpus, overkill in the cooling dept. is sometimes necessary.
Robert Crawford On Friday 22 July 2005 03:31 pm, Joseph wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 10:00 -0400, Robert Crawford wrote: > > > > I have an old IDE drive, maybe I can squeeze Gentoo on it for > > > > testing. Bob has a good idea too regarding the CPU compound under the > > > > heat-sink but at CPU temp. 39C I don't see how that could cause any > > > > problem. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > #Joseph > > > > No matter what the temp sensors are reading, your problem definitely > > sounds like it's heat related. Temp sensor readings can, and often are > > not accurate, sometimes to an amazing degree. I don't know what type of > > sensor your cpu uses, but if it's the type under the cpu, it might not be > > in good contact with the cpu itself, thus giving false readings, I > > wouldn't be surprised if your cpu temp was really over 50C. In my > > experience, temps over 50C. with AMD 32bit cpus start giving problems > > like this, no matter what AMD says about it. Seeing as how you have an > > AMD 64, I'm not sure about the sensor type- all I'm saying is that the > > readings can vary wildly, and are not to be trusted, especially > > considering your current problems. > > > > Robert Crawford > > Now I tend to lean towards your solution. > It could be heat related. > I've disable on-board network and add standard PCI card on a IRQ3 > (separate IRQ); so the SATA controller has its own IRQ as well. > > The computer freesed once during "emerge sync" without any error > message, and with error during emerge Apache. > > -- > #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
