Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 08:13:15 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: dimension 6 <bxdimension6@hotmail.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggestion for 4.7 Message-ID: <20020814131315.GD96151@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <20020814103840.GA45280@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <F40qNHv6Bwy5OXYirm900001002@hotmail.com> <20020814103840.GA45280@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:38:40AM +0100, David Malone wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 10:56:19PM +0000, dimension 6 wrote: > > I really have been suffered from FreeBSD's system hangs on my system > > (athlon amd). I am new to FreeBSD, but I know some people complaining about > > same problem as I have on FreeBSD. It stops responding during installation > > or whatever I try to install something larger than normal. > > Is it possible the machine is overheating? Installing things involves > gunzipping, which would make the CPU active - if your fans aren't up > to scratch it could overheat at this time. I would tend to agree. The majority of the problems people have with athlons are due to overheating or lack of power. They run hotter than intel chips and require more power and more cooling. -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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