fc3 randomly freezing on a Dell Inspiron 5150

[Scot L. Harris]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 14:47, Peter James Morgan wrote:

> 
> gkrellm was showing the CPU temperature within a normal level 60-70oC at 
> the time of the freeze.
> 

Do you mean Fahrenheit or Celsius?  60 to 70 C sounds pretty hot to me. 
I thought it was 60 to 70 F was typical?
 
> > With acpi off if it is stable does the fan run all the time?  
> 
> Fan operates normally without ACPI.
> 
> > Not sure but it seems like there should be some where to specify
> > thresholds for when the fan runs.  
> 
> Sorry, but the machine was fairly cool to the touch, certainly not 
> hotter than it has been before.
> 
> It is a development machine, so it tends to run short but rather intense 
> CPU load (lots of editing, followed by lots of compiling).
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter.

So your options are to run with acpi off.  Does that present any issues?

Are there any bug filed against acpi?

Anyone else with the same hardware seeing similar problems?

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