Re: [Sheflug] Crashing software

[david <david.willington@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 16:25 +0000, A C Hurst wrote:
> Hello,
> forgive me if I'm stating the obvious:
> have you checked system temperatures? Are any fans that should be working doing
> so?
> The only times I've ever had stability issues were (1) buggy nvidia drivers for
> my ageing TNT2 card, and (2) overheating CPU after tweaking my fan speed too
> low.
The whole thing went belly up. As far as I can tell there was a power
 surge which my surge protector didn't protect against. It blew out the
 power supply, motherboard, RAM and possibly processor. I've got some lovely new hardware now and no problems at all.

David
> The lm_senors package should be of help.
> 
> Andy
> (Gentoo x86, fluxbox, etc...)
> 
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