RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ4R Lockup/Crash and Over Heating??

["jim st john" <jim@xxxxxxxx>]

>>On Monday 09 December 2002 10:29 pm, Jerry Farquhar wrote:
>> Had a Raq4r decide to quit functioning this morning in the wee hours
and
>> upon initial inspection it felt unusually warm in comparison to
another
>> identical RA4R.  The fans had recently been replaced and were blowing
>>full
>> force but seem much warmer than the other RAQ4R.

>Just FYI I have a small shell script that I run in cron.quarter-hourly/
to
>check the CPU temp, and email if it raises above the set value. Handy
to
>tell
>if a fan fails, or in this case too much load, etc hits the unit and
the
>temperature goes skyward. Follow my sig and choose downloads. Script is
>called cpuinfo.sh
>Tested on RaQ3 & 4 works nicely here, and has saved a RaQ from meltdown
>before
>(how unlucky is it for both fans to stop at the same time!)

You might also check to see if the new fans were installed with the
proper airflow direction.  I believe that they should both exhaust air
from the raq.

-jim-