Re: [nottingham] Computer troubles

From: Paul Sladen (notlug@paul.sladen.org)
Date: Thu 07 Mar 2002 - 16:34:34 GMT


On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Alex Walker wrote:

> I'm having some spontaneous reboots on a desktop machine I built myself,
>
> Chip: Duron 600
>
> - Reboots occur more frequently under heavy load (was running
> distributed.net, stopping it seems to have reduced reboots, but not
> altogether. On kernel compiles it dies frequently.)

Sounds like it's probably an over-heating problem; especially that the chip
is shuting down and not coming up again until you've given it time to cool
off. Large memory use (ie. -j3 kernel compiles) can indicate dogey RAM.

[Probable] Answers:

  a) Bigger Fan/Heatsink

  b) Swap out the DIMMs

  c) Swap out the chip

        -Paul

-- 
Nottingham, GB

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