Laptop CPU freezes

Eberhard Roloff tuxebi at gmx.de
Sun Sep 21 15:34:50 UTC 2008


Willy K. Hamra schrieb:
> Larry Hartman wrote:
>> My dv8000 with AMD Turion, 2GB memory, experienced multiple hard lockups 
>> yesterday, can't seem to figure out the cause.  Log files that I know to look 
>> at are clean.
>>
>> I was running Firefox 3.0 and Krusader at the time...have a LAMP, wikimedia 
>> server running as well. I have been running these constantly for about 9 
>> months, so do not believe they are the culprit.
>>
>> My gut feeling tells me to look at CPU temperature, but do not know the 
>> tools/configuration for this.  Any help?
>>
>>
>> Larry
>>
> 
> you can try installing ksensors, which is a GUI frontend for lm-sensors.
> it can provide with many info about the computer, including
> temperatures. fan speeds, CPU loads, memory info, swap info and many
> other things.
> 
> 
and as you are at it, install smartmon tools, to.

If you are lucky, you will be able to also monitor your harddisk temps 
with ksensors, as well.

Should you have a "SMART" (or similar) setting in your bios, do not 
forget to activate it, beforehand.


kind regards
Eberhard





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