Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945972AbWBOPOB (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:14:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945973AbWBOPOB (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:14:01 -0500 Received: from solarneutrino.net ([66.199.224.43]:15625 "EHLO tau.solarneutrino.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945972AbWBOPOA (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:14:00 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:13:56 -0500 To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" Cc: Jean Delvare , Erik Mouw , Nick Warne , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Random reboots Message-ID: <20060215151356.GA17864@tau.solarneutrino.net> References: <20060213210435.GC16566@tau.solarneutrino.net> <20060213211044.066CE5E401E@latitude.mynet.no-ip.org> <20060213212243.GE16566@tau.solarneutrino.net> <7c3341450602131332x2fcd7d8co@mail.gmail.com> <20060213213929.GG16566@tau.solarneutrino.net> <20060214132904.GI16566@tau.solarneutrino.net> <20060214232222.5d4384a8.khali@linux-fr.org> <20060215142809.GA17842@tau.solarneutrino.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Ryan Richter Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1080 Lines: 22 On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:11:45AM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > > The sensors report a bunch of obvious nonsesne as always... I keep them > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^_________ Hint? > > I have a "new" machine with a "Thunder" board. It started to re-boot > for no good reason at all. It turns out that the plastic catch in > the fan/heatsink hold-down mechanism broke so the heatsink was > not tight against the CPU. I "fixed" it by tying it down with > some wire. The reboot problems, and some other "strange" problems > went away. One of the strange problems was that my 'C' runtime > library got corrupted, as well as some other read-only files, > even though e3fsck never found any problems. All the temps have always reported 77C. I felt the heatsinks this morning, and they're fine. -ryan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/