I don't think running in the bios is a good way to test temp, best to do
that while it is under some load. I suggest running some stress tests on
it.
On 26 Jan 2013 14:30, "Rob Malpass" <linux@???> wrote:
> Hi all****
>
> ** **
>
> My dad (an electronics engineer of 40 years experience) once told me
> “intermittent faults are a swine to fix” – and never truer words were
> spoken. Could you all please take a look at my logic before I condemn
> certain parts of this failing box to the bin?****
>
> ** **
>
> 2008 vintage 64-bit 4Gig RAM machine running Ubuntu 12 fine for the past
> month – 28 days uptime as my media server and no problems at all. Today I
> switched the kvm box controlling it to control another machine (no
> disconnection, just a flick of a switch) and the box powered down! For
> some reason whenever the bad box powers down, it needs to be physically
> unplugged from the mains before it will come back up – this particularly
> baffles me. Brassed off with this, I started to look into what causes
> random shutdowns (it’s not the first time it’s done this but as I say it’s
> been fine for 28 days). I left it running for 20 minutes in BIOS to check
> the CPU temp was fine – and it was at 44 degrees C max. Rebooted to see
> what dmesg might say but – post BIOS but before boot – it shut itself
> down. And at that point my anglo saxon became taboo for the good folks on
> this list!****
>
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>
> I’m now stumped and, as the machine is 2008 vintage (though good for its
> time) it might be time to upgrade – but I’m wondering which bits I can
> salvage. I’m thinking the following are ok to reuse: case, optical drive,
> hdd whereas any of the mobo, RAM and certainly PSU could well be the
> trouble and it’s almost impossible to test which.****
>
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>
> Can anyone offer another diagnosis / treatment for these symptoms? I
> might be inclined to buy a new PSU and see what happens swapping that
> before any more major surgery but *is there really anything I’ve missed
> as regards seemingly random shutdowns*? Incidentally when I say shutdown
> – I’m talking immediate power down – not the OS executing a halt command.*
> ***
>
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>
> Cheers****
>
> Rob****
>
> ** **
>
> Cheers****
>
> ROb****
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