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A shutdown "out of the blue" is almost always a heat or power supply problem. You can check /var/log/messages to see if there were any errors before syslog restarted (the last thing that happened before you rebooted the system).
I've seen fans and chips so clogged with dust/hair that the machines were a fire hazard. It was amazing that they even powered on.
does your computer shut down in just ubuntu 6? has it always randomly shut down or has it just started to? is it random or is it under certain cirucmstances, ie burning CD, playing CPU-intensive game, etc, ? are you overclocking anything? can your power supply handle all of your hardware? the only log i can think of is checking 'dmesg'.
Nov 27 18:56:29 Darkstar kernel: [ 68.172972] NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
Nov 27 18:56:29 Darkstar kernel: [ 68.322491] NTFS volume version 3.1.
Nov 27 19:10:22 Darkstar kernel: [ 598.869465] ACPI: Critical trip point
Nov 27 19:10:22 Darkstar gconfd (alek-4702): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
Nov 27 19:10:22 Darkstar gconfd (alek-4702): Exiting
Nov 27 19:10:36 Darkstar exiting on signal 15
It happens now, never happened in suse, Happens randomly... I was using beryl, and listening to music and using gmail notifier..
Any ideas?
You are overheating. Check to make sure your fans are working, vacuum any dust from inside the case, make sure your heatsinks have not come off the components.
You are overheating. Check to make sure your fans are working, vacuum any dust from inside the case, make sure your heatsinks have not come off the components.
Its a laptop... it has only one fan.... is very well ventilated... so beryl si causing this... i dont know why, I have a friend with less specs laptop and he does not have this problems.
Thanks!
Have you tried checking what the actual CPU (and other things) temperatures are when your under heavy load? Eg, reading it off the hardware monitoring chips? Sometimes you cant really tell that your overheating, then all of the sudden you look up and bam, its at like 208F or some shit... hahah I had that happen a few times when I was compiling. I need to get like a suped up fan for my laptop, stupid thing gets so toasty. It's a Celeron M in a laptop though...
Its a laptop... it has only one fan.... is very well ventilated... so beryl si causing this... i dont know why, I have a friend with less specs laptop and he does not have this problems.
Thanks!
It sounds like either the cpuspeed utility is not throttling the CPU properly, or the lmsensors/fancontrol utilities are not set up to turn on the fan at the proper thresholds (or both).
For a laptop, also check that you have the latest BIOS. Fan control issues are typically handled in BIOS updates.
Last edited by macemoneta; 11-27-2006 at 06:09 PM.
It sounds like either the cpuspeed utility is not throttling the CPU properly, or the lmsensors/fancontrol utilities are not set up to turn on the fan at the proper thresholds (or both).
everything is working... the fan is at full speed... I think its the nvidia drivers that make a lot of use... I used the lupine.me.uk lrn drivers... since that the fan is always on... and cpu its at 44%
I have a nVidia GeForceFX 5700 Ultra and I upgraded its heatsink to a Thermaltake Schooner (CL-G0009). nVidia settings prints ambient temperature at 35 degrees C and core temperature at 39 degrees C during idle or normal operation with out using 3D. Room temperature is about 20 degrees C. The computer is a desktop, but it just you gives an idea how much cooling your notebook computer may need.
If you are using kernel version 2.6.x, write scripts to read the information from sysfs. sysfs is more accurate than lm_sensors because the information comes straight from the temperature monitor of your computer. lm_sensors could be used but only if you tinker the temperature formulas and configure it
I suggest using a different Window/Desktop manager like XFce4. Also turn off services so the processor can relax. Use hdparm or sdparm to set power management for your hard drive and optical drive.
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Originally Posted by macemoneta
You are overheating. Check to make sure your fans are working, vacuum any dust from inside the case, make sure your heatsinks have not come off the components.
Using a vacuum in the computer is bad. Vacuums creates static electricity on the tip of the nozzle. If it is used, the electrical components will be damaged.
I have a nVidia GeForceFX 5700 Ultra and I upgraded its heatsink to a Thermaltake Schooner (CL-G0009). nVidia settings prints ambient temperature at 35 degrees C and core temperature at 39 degrees C during idle or normal operation with out using 3D. Room temperature is about 20 degrees C. The computer is a desktop, but it just you gives an idea how much cooling your notebook computer may need.
If you are using kernel version 2.6.x, write scripts to read the information from sysfs. sysfs is more accurate than lm_sensors because the information comes straight from the temperature monitor of your computer. lm_sensors could be used but only if you tinker the temperature formulas and configure it
I suggest using a different Window/Desktop manager like XFce4. Also turn off services so the processor can relax. Use hdparm or sdparm to set power management for your hard drive and optical drive.
Using a vacuum in the computer is bad. Vacuums creates static electricity on the tip of the nozzle. If it is used, the electrical components will be damaged.
Use ONLY compressed air.
The thing is that this started to happen When i installed lrm nvidia drivers... no te one in the online repository... this drivers make a different use of the nvidia I gues.
I tried shutting down beryl... to see If it stop heating up... but it didnt... so its the drivers.
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