Re: Linux crashed a lot - more info
John Reinke wrote:
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> Yet another problem I've had that you reminded me of - the CPU fan will
> occasionally speed up and slow down. I've seen it stop almost completely,
> too. Sometimes, it makes a nasty rattling sound, but it seems to be
> attached well enough to the CPU that it shouldn't fall off. I've seen that
> the BIOS knows what speed the CPU fan is turning - is that how the fan can
> affect the computer? I've never seen the CPU get too hot.
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What motherboard do you have? Some motherboards come with monitoring
software that runs under Windows to let you know the temperature in a
couple of places. If you have that, and can stand to run Windows for a
while, maybe it would tell you something.
That alerted me to overheating when I was having a very similar
situation to yours. That turned out to be a defective, cheap fan. It
was BIOS-controlled, but probably just not made well enough to "keep up
with" what the BIOS was wanting it to do. You might want to just get a
different (hopefully, better) fan, since they're not very expensive.
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