Re: [cobalt-users] RE: Rebooting Problem

[Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 11:01 am, Jason Braverman wrote:

> I opened the chassis, took out the fan from the CPU and noticed that
> it would not spin when I hit it with an air can.  Obviously that is a
> bad fan, replaced the fan and everything looks great with CPU temps
> in the low 30's.

Certainly worth replacing, then.

> Another interesting note, these systems use AMD
> cpu's which are prone to overheating.  I noticed that my unit did not
> have any of that heat dissipating glue under the CPU Heatsink.  I
> added some for extra protection.

The RaQ's CPUs are fairly low-powered and really shouldn't have heat 
buildup problems.

One problem is the fan itself will get very hot if it's getting power 
and not spinning.  Another is that the power supply will get very hot 
if there's no air moving through it.

That's more likely to be the problem than the CPU, at least in our 
experience.

Jeff
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