Problem: my desktop system hangs. Question: what to do next

[Mike Kallies]

On 12-07-25 5:33 PM, Mel Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 17:06 -0400, John Moniz wrote:
> 
>>> William Park suggests power troubles -- should I cook up something with
>>> an Arduino or some comparators and a DSO?  I suppose that could be done.
> 
>> Have you checked that the motherboard isn't shorting on anything?
> 
> A cursory look shows nothing obviously wrong.  The thing it, it will run
> for days, as long as I don't try to run a big build like gdb or
> summon-arm-toolchain .  Even building openocd doesn't seem to be enough
> to bring it down.

Underclocking might be a lame way to address heat issues.  The board
seems to have a following with the overclockers.  Maybe you can bring it
down a few notches instead.

-Mike
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