Spontaneous Reboot

[Sergio Salvi]

I've had a Duron 750 that worked for months with the fan stopped without any reboots. I've just found it out when I opened the computer case to change some cards and saw that my fan wasn't spinning. But at least the heatsink was there :)

Hope that helps...

[]s,
Salvi

Taavi Burns wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:25:42AM -0500, William O'Higgins wrote:
> 
>>Thanks for the quick reply, but that's not it.  The machine was for
>>approximately 10 minutes at the time of the failure.  The CPU is a Duron
>>600.  Is there anywhere that the kernel would log a message along the
>>lines of "What th-" besides /var/log/messages?
> 
> 
> If the CPU fan has stopped spinning, it might even be called surprising that
> it managed to last 10 minutes.  It is "only" a Duron 600, though, so 10
> minutes might be just about right.
> 
> I've heard reports of Athlons dying in under 10 seconds when the heatsink
> has fallen off.
> 
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