Yeah on windoze boxes I run prime95 in conjunction with speed fan and push the system to 100% processing power. Is there a Linux equivalent of this? Or a tool that can be run from a live Distro I'm intrigued :)
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On 26 Jan 2013, at 14:38, "Michael Daffin" <james1479@???> wrote:
> I don't think running in the bios is a good way to test temp, best to do that while it is under some load. I suggest running some stress tests on it.
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> On 26 Jan 2013 14:30, "Rob Malpass" <linux@???> wrote:
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> My dad (an electronics engineer of 40 years experience) once told me “intermittent faults are a swine to fix” – and never truer words were spoken. Could you all please take a look at my logic before I condemn certain parts of this failing box to the bin?
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> 2008 vintage 64-bit 4Gig RAM machine running Ubuntu 12 fine for the past month – 28 days uptime as my media server and no problems at all. Today I switched the kvm box controlling it to control another machine (no disconnection, just a flick of a switch) and the box powered down! For some reason whenever the bad box powers down, it needs to be physically unplugged from the mains before it will come back up – this particularly baffles me. Brassed off with this, I started to look into what causes random shutdowns (it’s not the first time it’s done this but as I say it’s been fine for 28 days). I left it running for 20 minutes in BIOS to check the CPU temp was fine – and it was at 44 degrees C max. Rebooted to see what dmesg might say but – post BIOS but before boot – it shut itself down. And at that point my anglo saxon became taboo for the good folks on this list!
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> I’m now stumped and, as the machine is 2008 vintage (though good for its time) it might be time to upgrade – but I’m wondering which bits I can salvage. I’m thinking the following are ok to reuse: case, optical drive, hdd whereas any of the mobo, RAM and certainly PSU could well be the trouble and it’s almost impossible to test which.
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> Can anyone offer another diagnosis / treatment for these symptoms? I might be inclined to buy a new PSU and see what happens swapping that before any more major surgery but is there really anything I’ve missed as regards seemingly random shutdowns? Incidentally when I say shutdown – I’m talking immediate power down – not the OS executing a halt command.
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