For the last 4-5 weeks my cpu will suddenly turn off, not shutdown, just instantly go off.
It has happened when I’ve been browsing and even when I have not been at the computer. I know it could be a hardware malfunction, but I started seeing some consistency in it’s crashes the last two weeks.
During Skype, more and more, it would crash. And then I whenever I would upload more than 3 MP3 files to Amazon Cloud Music Player It would crash in the same way.
I downgraded off Tumblweed this morning and it seems to be working better. It has crashed once, but it completed uploading 12 tracks to Amazon, which it had not been able to before.
I’m running KDE 4.6.3 currently and Firefox 4.0.1 with Skype 2.2.0.25-suse111. I was using kernel …39, now I’m on …37.
I’m content to stick with the 11.4 repos and …37 kernel. But I would love to hear if anyone else has had these issues, or a suggestion to solve this?
> For the last 4-5 weeks my cpu will suddenly turn off, not shutdown, just
> instantly go off.
In my experience, this usually is a hardware issue - generally the system
shutting down due to an overheating problem (and the hardware is
protecting itself by powering off).
On 06/05/2011 08:36 AM, swerdna wrote:
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> kahu;2349115 Wrote:
>> OK, I can confirm I’m still having an issue with the …37 kernel.
>
> Then I’ll move this for you to the broader audience of openSUSE 11.4
> forums. (P.S. check your ram).
when was the last time you cleaned out all the chicken feathers and cat
hair?
sounds a lot like a heat problem to me also…tell us more about your
hardware…age included…might be a power supply unit going bad…
or a simple momentary short…
but, i’m just about certain it is not an openSUSE issue…what do you
find in the logs, say /var/logs/messages which correspond to the abrupt
shut down…any errors or warnings printed there?
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swerdna: I’d appreciate if you’d move this to the best forum…
Yes, my crashes seem directly related to high network usage. I’ll post a /var/log/messages post when I find another crash.
Here’s my hardware info:
Acer Aspire E380
AMD Athlon 64 X2
1 WesternDigital HD 465.8 GB (4GB in SWAP partition)
4GB RAM (3.63GB used in my 32-bit OS)
Nvidia GeForce 6150SE with 270.41.19 driver
My sense is that there’s an issue or link with the Network Adapter. Especially as I cannot currently pull up information for it. Attempting to pull up /sbin/yast2 inetd (xinetd) just stalls. So does the YAST2 Hardware Information probe…
I’ve opened my box quite a few times in the last month to switch hard drives, and try to keep it clean. The crashes happen specifically during high uploads–downloads are fine!
On 06/05/2011 07:06 PM, kahu wrote:
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> It’s specifically my “lmsensors/k8temp-pci00c3/Core1_Temp” that shows a
> steady temperature rise when uploading.
i believe that is an inside the CPU temperature…what does it rise
to…i don’t guess it will shut down until something around +80 C…
how old is your machine?
have you ever turned it on with the cover off? does the fan on top of
the CPU turn?
have you ever removed the fan and used a brush to gently clean out the
groves of the heat sink…that might do the trick…if not i guess
(depending on age) it might be that the CPU thermal grease has hardened
and is no longer letting the heat flow to the heat sink…
my experience is that that happened about every three years here, on my
just past AMD 64 3000+
unless you have more info, and if you are mechanically up to it, i’d say
clean the ribs of the heat sink and see if that does the trick…if not
i’d get a little tube of CPU thermal grease…and find and read two or
three articles on HOW to change it, and HOW MUCH to use (not much, about
the size of a single grain or rice)…
if you are not up to the fiddling, take it to a shop…call a geek over…
OH! by the way, have you messed with the CPU clocking/voltage? if so,
drop it back to the way it was sold to you, and see if that won’t solve
the ‘problem’…
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The computer is 4yrs old. I haven’t done any overclocking tweaks. I’ll work on cleaning it.
The crash happens at around 180 degrees F.
Is it possible I have an incorrect driver configuration, or should I not consider that option? I just changed this from a Windows to Linux box a few weeks before this began happening.
Yeah, this overheating protection on CPUs is why they are practically indestructible while installed on the motherboard. That’s why I have gone through a heap of motherboards over the years but the CPUs taken out of them were still working. Most of them are obsolete of course ([234]86s, that sort of vintage).
On 06/06/2011 12:06 AM, kahu wrote:
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> Cleaning out the dust under the fan in the heatsink above the process
> seems to have stabilized it!
good, happy to be helpful…
by the way, you wrote above: “I just changed this from a Windows to
Linux box a few weeks before this began happening.” and want to comment
that more than one (many more) come here and begin to have ‘problems’
with fan running too much, or not enough, or fan too loud, or CPU temp
too high, or ‘suddenly’ there are RAM errors…
the explanation for the latter is that Linux uses RAM differently, and
will most likely use all of it, something Windows might seldom, if
ever, do…so, Linux will find the RAM problems…
as for heat and fan: if the makers of the hardware would just work with
the Linux developers (like they do with Windows), then all would be
wonderful for you (the purchaser) even if you elect to not use the
monopolistic one…
when folks buy a vehicle they are not constrained to one brand of
gasoline, yet billions buy hardware “ready for” Windows, and never
realize how ‘locked in’ to Redmond’s fuel, they might be…
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> swerdna: I’d appreciate if you’d move this to the best forum…
>
> Yes, my crashes seem directly related to high network usage. I’ll post a
> /var/log/messages post when I find another crash.
>
> Here’s my hardware info:
> Acer Aspire E380
> AMD Athlon 64 X2
> 1 WesternDigital HD 465.8 GB (4GB in SWAP partition) 4GB RAM (3.63GB
> used in my 32-bit OS) Nvidia GeForce 6150SE with 270.41.19 driver
>
> My sense is that there’s an issue or link with the Network Adapter.
> Especially as I cannot currently pull up information for it. Attempting
> to pull up /sbin/yast2 inetd (xinetd) just stalls. So does the YAST2
> Hardware Information probe…
As I said before the thread was moved, I would look for a thermal
shutdown warning, maybe after it does this, boot into the BIOS and look
at the temps and see if anything is overly hot.