From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FA3cm-0005YN-Oe for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:18:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1HBG1rY023554; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:16:01 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1HB7aUS007354 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:07:36 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i28so297252wxd for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:07:35 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=O4LjHsV+D/7FaH/AT8g21n0qnPOUqG3TWbKh+7eWuDzvO9KAlP6mcT8XWZXSNk39LyMjIvv2pqQNcHN4cwJSkrE/tbTs6+IA7FH5S/GskQd2vXR1Zrz3wctLyKNHasIP4t/3pHUelJdm/bIEAk/n27FUA56Ch4r+FXvLTAxfcmc= Received: by 10.70.34.12 with SMTP id h12mr756379wxh; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:07:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from 210.211.144.12.bb-static.vsnl.net.in ( [210.211.144.12]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i17sm1963497wxd.2006.02.17.03.07.34; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 03:07:35 -0800 (PST) From: Mrugesh Karnik Organization: None To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help? Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:37:27 +0530 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200602170417.50519.mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com> <200602170255.16743.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <342e1090602161907r4adfceecr2b05eee5bd1678b3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <342e1090602161907r4adfceecr2b05eee5bd1678b3@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602171637.27478.mrugeshkarnik@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: af171e10-e036-4f68-bc57-e687ea56c9f0 X-Archives-Hash: 3ddba2d5dd73b7d16734cb24e839187f On Friday 17 February 2006 08:37, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > I had the same issue, same MOBO and same system (almost the same, > instead of the sempron I had an athlon xp), the heatsink was working > fine, it kept locking for a while, then one day as you described it > refused to boot, as I forced it, it became unstable, finally not > booting anymore. > > I took it to the guy I got it from and he said part of the bus for the > MOBO was fried, due to high temperatures, not in the processor, but at > the chipset, that caused the BIOS to failure, finally crushing the > entire system, reflashing BIOS did not solve it. Now I'm looking for a > new motherboard as I write this from my notebook. Check the whole sys > temperature. > > I have been running into problems with this kind of MOBO and > processor, its the second fried mobo in 3 months, I changed the power > supply, changed memory, drives, everything. So, my advice, cool your > system... > > Again, that's my own experience and I just write this because you > described exactly what happened to me last week. You scare me :P I wondered about the BIOS being dead when the computer refused to start, but then after a few hours the computer did start, so I guess it wasn't a BIOS issue. Thanks for your input. Mrugesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list