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Regards Dan On 23/06/14 20:09, bad apple wrote:
On 23/06/14 19:09, Eion MacDonald wrote:Dear folk, The heat problem may be problem with intermittent fan use. I have one old machine with two hard discs one Windows Vista one OpenSUSE. On Vista fan always starts and keeps going. No shut down problem, except when doing a windows monthly update, when it might cut out, let cool and restart. On OpenSUSE the machine starts, the fan does not start, (reason unknown) and machine goes into constant re boot mode, each boot cutting out shortly after starting. However start and but run 'vigorously' to well overheat, machine cuts out, than a restart under OpenSUSE the fan cuts in at start and keeps going. No problem thereafter. I have cleaned machine, replaced fan , but not replaced the thermal paste. This may give you ideas.Is there any particular reason why this machine isn't in the bin? I'm a pretty rabid computer recycler, inveterate stock piler of old gear and hopeless hoarder and even so, that machine would last about 5 seconds in my mitts. There comes a point when you just have to toss that old crap in the trash, especially when a brand new SoC (Pi, Beagle, Android USB "pc-on-a-stick", etc) or bog standard bare bones all-in-one x86 board (AMD Geode, etc) would not only cost a mere few quid but probably pay for itself in electricity savings within the year and would still actually be *faster*... Also you have no idea how lucky you are that you can let Windows fail (I presume by this you mean literally hit the thermal caps and shut down instantly) a monthly patch Tuesday roll-up marathon right in the middle and then apparently pick right up where it left off and not have a completely destroyed environment. I've seen laptops run out of battery half way through a windows update run and never recover. It sounds like your Vista box has survived numerous of these normally fatal events, god only knows how! Regards
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