[Herts] Irritating Alarm

[David Honour]

I will try disabling throttling and seeing if that solves it, I hadn't
even considered it, thankyou.

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:10:35 +0100
Kevin Sheehan <confused at befuddlement.net> wrote:

> Does your motherboard have speed throttling for the fans?
> 
> As I have had propblems with these a few times. I was thinking could
> it be that the motherboard is picking the temperature increase up
> (Not neccessarily overheat), trying to throttle up the fans but one
> of them is damaged or a low noise one that has a lower max RPM and
> this is setting the alarm off? I.E. at idle the RPM is above the
> alarm threshold, but throttled up it cannot reach the alarm threshold.
> 
> Anyhow just  a thought.
>     Kevin
> 
> David Honour wrote:
> > I have an alarm (on the motherboard, or at least voiced by it) that
> > goes off when my system is under load (and it doesn't take much,
> > bzflag will trigger it).
> >
> > Having looked into lmsensors (which i'm not sure if i can
> > trust the output of), it shows no overheat or power shortage.
> >
> > It also doesn't appear in dmesg, so I think it is likely to be
> > hardware, but, i cannot diagnose it.
> >
> > While the alarm is going off it appears to run as normal, hovever,
> > it has been doing this on a slightly more than daily basis for some
> > time now and I am becoming increasingly worried by it (and it's
> > really loud).
> >
> > Sometimes it will stop if you close all running programs (just as if
> > you were going to shut down). Sometimes you have to shut it down to
> > shut it up.
> >
> > System:
> > CPU: x2-3800 <- stock cooler
> > Ram: 2Gb of cheap stuff
> > Mobo: Abit KN8-SLI
> > Graphics: 2x6600Gt SLI
> > Audio: M-Audio Audiophile 2496
> > HDD: Western Digital (250gb) <- I am worried about this anyway
> > Optical: one dvdrw and a dvdr <- not nessacarily active when goes
> > off +loads of case fans
> >
> > Any ideas, thanks
> > David
> >
> > p.s. I think I will bring it to the next meeting so if there's
> > anything in terms of hardware tests that you think might help, then
> > might be the time.
> >
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