Re: [LAU] Hard lock-ups plus MOTU UltrLite Mk3

From: Darren Landrum <darren.landrum@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun May 24 2009 - 05:42:23 EEST

Overheating CPU? That's a thought.

Well, I guess my system is a year old and could use a bit of an
overhaul. Thank you very much for the help!

-- Darren

James Cameron wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 09:50:45PM -0400, Darren Landrum wrote:
>> Well, I decided to run memtest86, and it locked up during the test.
>
> Ah, good, that reduces the component set to something quite smaller.
> The things I would consider as cause for that are:
>
> 1. dust in the CPU cooling fins, (I take my systems outside and run a
> vacuum cleaning in reverse, with a thin nozzle, and play the air stream
> over the various parts of the heatsink),
>
> 2. non-rotation or slow rotation of the cooling fans, (if the system
> has a BIOS sensor display, check that it shows a reasonable rotation of
> the fan, typical rotation rates are from 1000 to 3000 RPM, in my
> experience, and is fixable by replacing the fan, or cleaning it)
>
> 3. drying out of the thermal conducting grease between the CPU and the
> heatsink, (I recently had to remove and reapply the grease on a Pentium
> 4 3GHz desktop at home, symptom was CPU temperature consistently high
> and random power downs),
>
> 4. failing power supply, (I unplug non-essential devices temporarily,
> such as hard drive, to lower the average power draw, and see if the
> memtest symptom goes away ... I also check the power supply voltages
> with a meter),
>
> 5. corrosion or other damage to the memory DIMM socket or module, (I
> wiggle the DIMMs during a memtest, with about the equivalent of up to
> 200 gram force ... if the memtest result changes in a cycle with my
> wiggling, I know there's damage),
>
> 6. a specific memory DIMM failed, (remove it, see if memtest
> completes).
>
> Oh, and above all remember to use anti-static procedures, and try not to
> unplug or replug things inside the unit while the power is on.
>
> Static discharge damage is particularly annoying because it typically
> happens months after the static discharge happens. The discharge causes
> damage which then takes a long time before it begins to make the
> component fail.
>
> So "it works after I zapped it" isn't a reliable method of proving no
> damage was done.
>

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