[QCLUG] core2quad build

[Jim Hall]

Culley Smith wrote:
> Hey, I?m new too.  I tried to send a message through last week, but it 
> didn?t go through.
> 
> I was just going to pop in here and say I too receive several network 
> errors when rebooting and shutting down Ubuntu.  II?ve had these network 
> errors in 7.04 - 8.04 versions of Ubuntu.  Been there consistently on 
> three or four very different machines that I?ve installed.  I should do 
> some digging in Ubuntu?s bug-tracker, but as it hasn?t seemed to cause 
> me any noticeable problems, I?ve left it alone.  The only thing I?ve 
> noticed is my computer occasionally hangs up and stops during the 
> shutdown process, but always loads just fine.
> 
> ---
> 
> In case my first email didn?t get through, I wanted to give a brief bio 
> on myself:
> 
> Name is Culley Smith.  Live in East Moline and work for the Prairie Area 
> Library System.  I?m the "web dude" here.  I run a Windows 2003 Server, 
> Ubuntu 7.10 Server, and a Fedora 4 server.  At home, I?m running Ubuntu 
> Desktop (7.10) and Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy on a laptop.  I push open source as 
> an option for libraries all of the time and spent some time helping one 
> library director tweak Xandros on her Asus Eee PC last week.
> 
> Culley
> 
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Noah Norris <preludelinux@gmail.com 
> <mailto:preludelinux@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     For those that made it to the event i brought my box i just built
>     firday last week
>     Core2quad
>     8 Gb - Ram
>     SLI  8800 GT 512 Mb video cards
>     500 Gb sata Hd
>     Case with plenty of fans (8+1ps fan)
>     650/750 watt Ps (suppose to be sli certified ... )
>      
> 
>     I have been getting random reboots on this box for some reason.
>     the first time it happened was 48 hours after i got the machine it
>     happened twice during the demo.
>     and when i got home it also happen but pretty much 30mins-1hour.
> 
>     According to lm-sensors the 4 cores under full load can run between
>     58C-50C with there being up to 8 Degree flux
>     between the cores. ( i plan to get some new heat sink grease and
>     another Heat sink fan )  ( due to these processor
>     running pretty hot to begin with this might be normal )  So this
>     could be a heat issue. yet it seems to random and
>     could run some pretty intense programs like folding @home 64bit smp
>     version .... and games just fine )
> 
>     Power could also be the problem .......  ( so once i got home i
>     pulled one of the 8800 GT in SLI out gona test this for a couple days )
>     .... off to get a 1kw power supply if this is the problem or at
>     least a supply with 2x 30amp 12v rails
> 
>     Could also be a problem witth SLI and nvidia driver. i did set
>     option SLI=0 to disable it and it still rebooted
> 
> 


Welcome to the LUG, Culley.

Jim