[plug] DFI Motherboards - Sound

[Leon Brooks]

On Sunday 16 October 2005 23:24, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> I've accidentally unplugged the CPU fan on a 6-series P4 (the ones
> that put out close to twice as much heat as an Athlon) on an Intel
> motherboard.  It ran fine for several hours and then shut down.
> When I went to power it up again, the BIOS informed that a "thermal
> event" had happened last time the machine was on and that I should
> check the heatsink. 

That's the usual result on a Linux box. At 3AM, a few minutes after the 
nightly cron jobs make the machine do it's only real work for the day.

I've had several Linux boxes with dead CPU fans (one with what was 
technically a dead spinning dust disk, a kind of primordial solar 
system in miniature but with plastic framework), one with both CPU and 
PSU fan dead, and one OpenServer box with "only" a dead PSU fan keep 
right on operating. The OpenServer box started segfaulting applications 
occasionally and at random; the case was too hot to touch and opening 
it cost me most of my eyebrows but stopped it killing applications 
until the end of shift.

Cheers; Leon

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