Help needed tracking out hardware problem...

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Mauri,

Try to use lm_sensors... It reads the sensors available in the
motherboard. All you need to do is find the correct offsets to the
sensor configurations...
The package is available in the fedora.us repository...

--
Pedro Macedo
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 02:18, Mauri Sahlberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As the guarantee of my laptop nears it's end the laptop has started to
> have unwanted symptoms. Namely it shuts itself down without no apparent
> reason. My guess is that it suffers from overheating and bails out.
> Usually I get this after an hour of work and running a long sequence of
> database queries (selects and inserts, about 20000 inserts and selects).
> I've been told that the board and processor probably have built in
> sensors for heat and several other goodies that could help me to
> diagnose the problem but I have no clue whatsoever how to read them. I
> guess I need something compiled in kernel and a suitable client program
> to record and display the values in real time. Any suggestions or
> keywords to throw in for google?
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
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