Re: Random reboots

Ryan Richter
2006-02-15T15:14:01Z

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