[Herts] Irritating Alarm

[David Honour]

I considered this, but, I set the cutoff at 70c, and it seems to be
getting to about 40, so I don't think that's it.

Thanks anyway, David

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:19:13 +0100
"Mike Roberts" <hertslug at mikerobe.org> wrote:

> > I will try disabling throttling and seeing if that solves it, I
> > hadn't even considered it, thankyou.
> 
> Further to this a motherboard I have can have alarms set in the bios
> which can be a bit over exciteable. Mine beeps at me but seems to be
> running fine so I raised the rather conservative alarm temperature
> settings in the bios to something slightly warmer but not melt the
> processor warm. 
> 
> Mike 8-{>
> 
> > 
> > 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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