[Gllug] processor problem

itsbruce at uklinux.net itsbruce at uklinux.net
Fri Oct 17 16:41:17 UTC 2003


On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:36:36AM +0000, david.crossland at talk21.com wrote:
> The processor has suffered a couple of overheats in it's time, once
> when i forgot to plug the fan back in after cleaning and recently
> after cleaning had been neglected for a while.  Could this have led to
> the processor malfunctioning? is there some way i could test this for
> certain?

At this point you should replace the cpu and see if that fixes
things.  If it doesn't then you have a spare cpu.  Continuing as is,
though, is only going to put a lot of extra stress on the system with
the constant reboots and failures.

-- 
Bruce

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