I will try monitoring the temp tomorrow. It will take me rebuilding the kernel, I know that I left everything for monitoring hardware out. As for the thermal compound. That was all changed yesterday.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Bill Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > There is a thermal safety setting in the kernel somewhere ... it used to > do this to me when a cpu heatsink came adrift ... but the cpu had to get > quite hot to trigger it (was on an Intel core2) so it was ok until it > tried to do real work ... instant off. > > Try monitoring the temperature. Also, cpu thermal compound/tape can > lose its effectiveness on older PC's as well as the usual dust puppies > blocking cooling etc. Also, depending on how it is setup, Linux might > be running just enough hotter than windows to trigger it. > > BillK > > > > On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 18:33 -0800, Willie wrote: > > I think you might be on to something. Here in Vegas it gets to be > > about 50 at night and I like to have my window open. That is when it > > turns off the most. I have been using this computer for years with > > Windows and Ubuntu Linux and this is the first time it has started to > > happen. Do you know of any setting in Gentoo that I would need to > > change for this? > > > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Willie wrote: > > > > > Hey Everyone, > > > > > > > > > I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. It > > > seems that whenever I am in Linux my computer will just turn > > > off. Not shutdown like I did "shutdown -r now". Just > > > completely off out of the blue at random times. I have been > > > reading the logs but there is nothing helpful at all. It is > > > never the same thing on the logs when it does just shutdown. > > > Sometime I can boot up and it will go off when it says > > > "Waiting for udev events to finish" or something like that. > > > > > > > > > I haven't done any major upgrades in awhile, there is really > > > nothing different. I installed Windows last night to see if > > > it is a hardware thing but nope it stays on. I also tried > > > reinstalling Gentoo on a couple of occasions on another Hard > > > Drive but it just shutdown while I was getting it done. > > > > > > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. I really don't want to be > > > in Windows after I spent all that time customizing my XFCE4 > > > desktop. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Willie Matthews > > > matthews.wil...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > Do you have a setting somewhere that when a fan gets below a > > certain speed it shuts down thinking the fan has failed? I > > know on mine I have to turn that feature off, especially in > > the winter. Sometimes my fans only turn at a couple hundred > > rpms. The mobo sometimes thinks the fan has failed. It seems > > to vary by brand as to what it does when this happens but I > > suspect something in Linux not the BIOS itself. > > > > Since winders works, which is odd unto itself lol, then it has > > to be some setting in Linux. I wouldn't think it would be the > > kernel since it usually locks up instead of cutting off. Do > > you have lm-sensors installed? I think it has the ability to > > do this sort of thing. That would be IF this is causing the > > problem to begin with. ;-) > > > > I'm sure you will get lots of ideas on this one tho. There > > can be a lot of causes. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > -- > > I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you > understood or how you interpreted my words! > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Willie Matthews > > matthews.wil...@gmail.com > > > > -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com
