D&C GLug - Home Page

[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]

Re: [LUG] Hardware Issues

 

Mike Martin wrote:
> My Box has all of of sudden started shutting down without waring under
> fairly heavy load (video encoding)
>
> I have replaced PSU (350-450 unit)
> Monitor,mouse and keyborad still show as functioning - but obvoiusly
> with no inputs
>
> To restart I have to take out plug and restart
>
> Any ideas on which part of HW to look at next?
CPU... or at least, what temperature it's running at.  Some BIOSes are 
set to simply shut down the machine if the CPU gets too hot.  
Install/use some sensor monitoring software such as KSysGuard (for KDE) 
and see what's happening.

Hope this helps.

Grant.

-- 
The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG
http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list
FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html