Hardware monitor needed

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Sun Jun 24 22:01:05 UTC 2007



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jim Capozzoli
> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 11:22 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Hardware monitor needed
> 
> 
> On 6/21/07, Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock at esfm.ipn.mx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > My FreeBSD 6.2 server restarts suddenly once or twice a day. 
> I believe it is
> > > because the processor is overheated, but I'm not sure. Is 
> there a way to
> > > check this from software? I would like to install a hardware 
> monitor program
> > > that can log out processor temperature in every minute. The 
> mainboard is ASUS
> > > P5LD2, if that matters. Is there a software out there that 
> can do this for
> > > me?
> > >
> > > Of course I could buy a new processor fan (or a water cooling 
> system) but I
> > > do not want to spend money before I make sure that is the root of the
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >  Laszlo
> > >
> >
> > Believe it or not, my computer had the same behavoir because
> > it was very dirty.  It took 3 cans of compressed air
> > to clean it.   Once clean, it worked perfectly.
> compressed air? nonsense, I prefer the 
> cleaned-out-reverse-shopvac method ;)
> 

I use my 60 gallon shop air compressor and about 100 psi on a
blowgun.  Making sure to use the non-oiled air feed, of course.

Ted



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