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Julian Hall wrote: > In the BIOS it will give the current temperature, but of course that > only works if you leave the PC sat with the BIOS loaded and nothing > else, which doesn't tax the system at all. It may be worth though > checking what the alarm temperatures are set to. If they are too low it > will shut down too often. Sometimes non-obvious places fail when they get warm. Thermal expansion can open up cracked joints, sometimes even between the layers on the motherboard or other multi-layer PCB's which are simply not traceable without specialist equipment. :( > Second, get a program called 'Motherboard Monitor' which runs in > Windows. Among other useful items it gives you the current CPU *and* > case temperatures. And for linux, lmsensors - especially when coupled with munin will give you spectacular graphs of all temps including hdd's and a bucket load of other info. Very useful kit! -- Simon Avery -- 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