[plug] hot freeze - not a contradiction in terms

[Steve Boak]

On Friday 15 December 2006 10:35, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 09:32 +0900, Steve Boak wrote:
> > On Friday 15 December 2006 02:18, Jim Householder wrote:
>
> -snip-
>
> > I may be tempting fate here by mentioning it before having done much
> > testing, but I *seem* to have bypassed the problem by disabling the
> > screen saver. I neglected to say earlier that I am running a KDE desktop,
> > so it *may* be the VIA Unichrome video driver causing the problem.
>
> Hi Steve, I'm the original poster :-)  Our systems are quite different
> in terms of hardware and software (see my original post for details), so
> it may be a long shot to relate the two :-/.  However, my symptoms were
> similar when it happened.  Funnily enough, I disabled the screensaver
> and monitor power saver after the first freeze, but then my system froze
> right in front of me in a small gap in my activity with no screensaver.
> So, if my experience is any guide that kind of puts paid to three of
> your suspicions (screensaver, no activity and major upgrade, that is).
> My system has been stable since I've been venting it better, so I
> *suppose* that answers my suspicions about heat :-/
>
> Gavin

Hi Gavin

dual Xeon 2.66 and two scsi drives versus Via and a laptop drive - I think 
saying our systems are 'quite different' is one of the understatements of the 
year :-)

Have you managed to get CPU or drive temperatures out of the system yet? There 
must be some sort of temperature monitoring going on to change fan speeds, 
but I'm assuming that is in the BIOS.

Following on from Richard's comment, if the system crashes again and you have 
to reset it, maybe can you quickly check the BIOS system health as it boots 
up again.

Can you install lm-sensors and fancontrol? It works a treat for me.

Steve

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