Someone please help me? Rare situation when I use any version or distribution of Linux...
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Someone please help me? Rare situation when I use any version or distribution of Linux...
The situation is the following. Every time I connect a USB with any Linux distraction, if I use the Live CD or even once already installed and used periodically I have speed spikes from the microprocessor coolers and the power supply. It sounds like a pod for a few seconds and then drops to minimal noise levels. Which may be? It is something that has been happening to me for years only on desktop PCs.
Can't you just ignore it? I mean if my fan blew loud a few seconds every time I plugged in a usb drive, so what? But I guess I don't plug in usb drives all that often....
Come to think of it, my post is pretty useless, if you wanted to ignore it you wouldn't have posted about it
In that case it is a hardware issue, you need to check it. What kind of hardware is it?
At the moment I have an i5 10400 and a Sentey power supply. But it is not something unique to this hardware, before I had an amd A8 7600 and with the same power supply and before that an amd A6 with another power supply and every time I had this problem...
Can't you just ignore it? I mean if my fan blew loud a few seconds every time I plugged in a usb drive, so what? But I guess I don't plug in usb drives all that often....
Come to think of it, my post is pretty useless, if you wanted to ignore it you wouldn't have posted about it
Ignore it and have my hardware get screwed by surprise? No, thanks
You might try running top or htop, then connecting the USB device. That might give you some leads to pursue.
You also might look into running GKrellM, Conky, or some other utility that does system monitoring to keep an eye on temperatures and CPU usage so as to get a fuller picture of what's happening inside that box.
Sounds like a reason to switch CPU cooler to a design that uses a large diameter fan that runs at lower RPM. You might never hear it speed up, or at least not enough to annoy. Most AMD coolers that show up here seem to use relatively itty bitty fans that run at annoyingly noisy speeds, 4,000 RPM, 5,000 RPM, or more. The big ones, 120mm or larger, tend to be very quiet and run under 2,000 RPM.
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Someone please help me? Rare situation when I use any version or distribution of Linux...
