FreeBSD 4.9 freezes

[JJB]

Your symptom is also common to power supply going bad.
Use small brush and clean/blow dust off motherboard and from inside
of power supply.
Replace power supply after first doing good cleaning.
If you just added an new cpu chip to older box, recheck install
instructions that you have motherboard jumpers correctly set.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Elvedin
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:20 PM
To: mario at schmut.com
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.9 freezes

mario wrote:

>this thing has heat written all over it
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>Chris said:
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>>Just a hunch - monitor your CPU temp. I had something similar. I
took my
>>case  off, ensured if have proper venting - and the freeze ups
stopped.
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>yes, do
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>taking the cover off will not necessarily help this.
>is the cpu heat sink properly seated?
>if needed does it have heat sink compound?
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>also tail you log files
>xtail /var/log/* or something like that
>maybe some clues there.
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>if all fails start pulling hardware out
>remove everything not really needed 512mb
>video keyboard. see if that helps
>if it does start adding stufff til it breaks
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>also start the box crank the cpu, see it that speeds it up
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>that's all i can think off for now
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Yes, try to see if it's a heat issue. Get something like healthd to
monitor temp and the distributed.net client or Prime95, whatever can
get
that processor hot and see if it freezes up again..

Also, if you have something like a Knoppix boot CD available, try it
and
run the same things you do and see if the same happens.

Considering it's a new processor, the BIOS should be set to either
reboot or just boost the fans if the processor begins to overheat
and I
think it might even lower the power going to it to lower the temp.
Try
to get it to freeze again and reboot right away and check the temps
in
the BIOS.

--
Elvedin T.

sysadmin.ods.org <http://sysadmin.ods.org>

ODS.org <http://www.ods.org>

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