Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:54:00 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death Message-ID: <64F2085C-AC27-4498-8E33-48E7FE92CC9F@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4E18805F.2000401@gmail.com> References: <20110709053404.B1FC910656AE@hub.freebsd.org> <4E18332F.1040805@gmail.com> <0C3600E5-1324-4852-894A-D29F3445660C@mac.com> <4E18805F.2000401@gmail.com>
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On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Manish Jain wrote: > What do I make of it when the system runs flawlessly both on Win XP and FreeBSD-8.0-amd64 ? That's interesting but inconclusive. Can you run prime95 testing overnight under WinXP without issues? Or memtest86? > BTW, 8.2 does NOT - for reasons unfathomable to me - install /usr/sbin/apmd. I don't know how significant that is, but I have had to insert into rc.conf : > > apm_enable="NO" > apmd_enable="NO" ACPI replaced APM around 2000. (I'm assuming you don't have a 11-year-old quad-core Phenom system, since AMD didn't make such processors until 2007 or 2008.) Regards, -- -Chuck
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