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| Thread ID: 45620 | 2004-05-28 05:29:00 | Keeping my CPU fan running more often in Linux / Doze | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 239940 | 2004-05-28 05:29:00 | Greetings, Ive finally found the cause of all my crashes with my laptop: Overheating CPU! It gets to around 57 - 60C degrees before the fans kick in... and that's just too hot, and programs start segfaulting etc. Basically, Ive been using gkrellm (http://www.gkrellm.net/) to monitor the CPU, and I've been running: cat /dev/urandom to add load to the CPU (And I've also been using cpuburn to do the same job but without the random output to the terminal). I find that the fans kick in way too late. Is there any way in Linux and in Doze that I can make the fans kick in faster, say, at 50 degrees? Many thanks Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 239941 | 2004-05-28 08:00:00 | SppedFan (www.almico.com) This one should do it in doze. Can't see any info on whether it has been ported to linux though. I used to run it a while back on a dodgy board that was always hot and crashing. Seemed to do the trick on the hot side of things but couldn't make it a better board ;) Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 239942 | 2004-05-28 08:07:00 | If there isn't a setting in the bios I would say there was a fault somewhere as the fan should kick in well before then. Have you tried a different fan yet. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 239943 | 2004-05-28 08:11:00 | The fan control is likely to be hardware. That means a temperature controlled switch on the CPU heatsink. In such cases there is no programmable control. Replacement hardware is called for. | godfather (25) | ||
| 239944 | 2004-05-28 21:30:00 | segfaulting? pardon my lack of overheating knowledge... |
Growly (6) | ||
| 239945 | 2004-05-28 23:12:00 | > segfaulting? > > pardon my lack of overheating knowledge... Segfault or segmentation fault is very basically what Linux programs can do when they lose the plot and terminate for whatever reason. In Chill's case, it is his CPU overheating which affects its performance. If you start up a app from a console window and it segfaults on you, the returned output is displayed with the segmentation fault error. Not something you like to see :p |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 239946 | 2004-05-28 23:40:00 | oooooh its a linux thing! pity knoppix is screwed on my computer... (nothing works and no -one knows the cure) cheers! |
Growly (6) | ||
| 239947 | 2004-05-29 09:32:00 | Chill here is what I did to cool my cpu Get rid of noisy oem cpu fan and grab an old psu fan, set it up to blow onto the oem cpu heatsink and try it @7 volts, + to psu yellow wire and - to psu red wire. Either mount it onto the cpu heatsink or make some kind of bracket so it blows over heatsink and towards an extra case fan also @ 7 volts. Works sweet. Cheers |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 239948 | 2004-05-29 09:34:00 | Duh, just noticed it a laptop!!!!!!!! Sorry |
rmcb (164) | ||
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