[plug] hot freeze - not a contradiction in terms

[Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions)]

Are you sure about the vacuum cleaner? I've always been told not to, due to the
static it produces...
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Quoting "W.Kenworthy" <billk at iinet.net.au>:

> Step 1: open case
> Step 2: remove dustbunnies fron cpu cooler, fans, power supply and vents
> using a vacuum cleaner and a soft (natural hair, not nylon) paint brush.
> Step3: make note in diary to do this at the start of *EVERY* summer,
> *BEFORE* things heat up ...
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:34 +0900, Gavin Chester wrote:
> > With this hot spell I have seen my workstation emulating a windoze PC in
> > the sense that twice today without warning it has lost all keyboard
> > input and apparent disc I/O so that I could not even open a VT or do
> > anything except a full reboot.  
> > 
> > I suspect the heat is causing disc problems and perhaps my box is not
> > ventilated well enough, but I can't find anything in /var/log/messages
> > at the time the latest lock-up happened.  (Aside: you may recall that I
> > reported problems with these discs before in that the filesystem has
> > become read-only without warning)
> > 
> > Just what might I be seeing here, do you think?  Where might I look to
> > get a better understanding?
> > 
> > System: Dell Precision 450 with dual Xeon 2.66 and two scsi drives setup
> > with LVM, running opensuse 10.1.
> > 
> > Gavin.
> > 
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