Dell Latitude LS / FreeBSD 6.1 - overheated, shuts down

[Yuri Lukin]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:59:40 +0100, Jan Stary wrote
> 
> I was watching my hw.cpi.thermal, and one second it said
> 
> 	hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 6.0C
> 
> and the next second it said
> 
> 	hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 247.0C
> 
> resulting in the above warning and shutdown.
> 
> Is this really possible? Can my CPU (disk?) have the temperature of
> 6C? Can it have 247C? What I _suspect_ is that the temperature
> _monitor_ itself has gone crazy ...
> 
> On Nov 13 07:24:46, Zoran Kolic wrote:
> > > hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 59.0C
> > A little bit high.
> 
> What would be a reasonable figure?
> 
> 	Thanks for any hints
> 
> 		Jan
> 

I had the exact same issue with one of my servers last year, I found out it
would just shut down anytime I did something CPU intensive (such as gzip a
200MB file). It turned out to be a bad fan on the CPU causing it to overheat
and shut down the system. Since then I've been monitoring my CPU fans via MBM
and MRTG. I would start there....

-Yuri