Constant crashes
Olafur Arason
olafura at hi.is
Sun Sep 14 21:50:13 UTC 2003
I tried lm_sensors and this is the result:
adm1021-i2c-0-4e
Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter at 4070
Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter
Board: +53°C (min = +20°C, max = +60°C)
CPU: +56°C (min = +20°C, max = +60°C)
die_code: 5
I'm not overclocking the cpu or nothing like that.
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 19:06, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Olafur Arason wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 17:36, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> >
> >> Olafur Arason wrote:
> >>
> >>> I've been experiencing constant crashes since I installed severn.
> >>>
> >>
> >> That's kinda vague. Could you be more specific about what is
> >> "crashing" and how? Is this a kernel oops? Does the machine
> >> spontaneously reboot? Do you get any error messages?
> >>
> >
> > My laptop doesn't reboot it just dies. I cant ctrl-alt-del or
> > ctrl-Sys_Req or any thing. There are no blinking lights on the
> > keyboard. I have to hold down the button to reboot the computer.
>
> So you're saying that it locks up, and that it does so both when you're
> running X and when you're not (can we assume runlevel 3, then?), and
> that the problem occurs both when you're running Severn kernels, and the
> previously stable Shrike kernel?
>
> If so, it sounds like your laptop may be overheating, or have other
> hardware issues. I suggest that you use some of the lm_sensors software
> to monitor the temperature of your laptop to see how hot it's getting.
> Perhaps locate and run memtest86 for several hours (I usually run it
> overnight). You might also want to go back to Shrike entirely and see
> if the problem goes away if neither of those things gives you any clues.
>
> > Everything about this got me leaning toward a hardware failure, but
> > this only happened after I installed severn. Could this be something
> > releated to acpi. Because I have to use acpi=off to boot the machine.
>
> It could be, but probably isn't if the problem happens when you're using
> Shrike's kernel.
>
>
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