I'm looking for confirmations on any kind of correlation between
the problems people have been having with the assorted VIA IDE
chipsets and possible overheating of said chipsets.
I'm asking because I suffered from the VIA-chipset-ate-my-data
bug, and I've been trying to reproduce it to no avail. The only
thing I haven't been able to recreate is the heat (ambient was
~35C (~95F) at the time), and noticing that now with ambient at
~25C (80F) the heatsink of the 694x quickly hits ~40 when doing
heavy I/O, whereas most articles I've read seem to think 25-30C
is about right, and that I was doing this heavy i/o thing when
the bug bit...
if any of you know what temperature this thing _should_ be, and
further if y'all could get onto those chipsets with thermometers
to see if we have a temp vs. crashes distribution, we might be
onto something.
Or maybe not.
--
John Lenton ([email protected]) -- Random fortune:
La humanidad es como es. No se trata de cambiarla, sino de conocerla.
-- Gustave Flaubert. (1821-1880) Escritor franc?s.
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, John R Lenton wrote:
>
> I'm looking for confirmations on any kind of correlation between
> the problems people have been having with the assorted VIA IDE
> chipsets and possible overheating of said chipsets.
>
I used to have problems with my motherboard in nearly all operating
systems if I let the system overheat. I don't know the exact temprature,
but some of the chips were hot enough to literally burn me when I touched
them. I run with an open case in a 40 degree room now, with minor
circulation of air around the computer and I haven't had the problem ever
since. I turn the PC off on days when the room temperature exceeds 80
degrees, becuase that's it's primary time to overheat.
- Mike
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