Dapper flight 5 issues

[Tommy Trussell]

On 3/24/06, Santanu Chatterjee <thisissantanu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/23/06, C Hamel <yogich at sc2000.net> wrote:
>
> > I had the same problem on my notebook and, assuming you have a notebook, you
> > may want to blow out the cooling fan ports to see if any dust bunnies come
> > running.  After I did that I had no more overheating probs.
>
> No, its not a notebook, just a plain vanilla desktop. Well, I blew out
> the cooling fans before (twice), but nothing helped. As a last resort,
> I was trying to reduce the CPU speed from BIOS (talk about overclocking!!)
> but unfortunately, mine is a genuine Intel motherboard, and this functionality
> is not available.
>
> Anyway, I am "eagerly" waiting for the mobo to burn out. At least I will
> know what to fix...

did you file a bug report? It seems possible that you need a kernel
module to make the fans operate as needed. (Similar, but opposite to
the problem with G5 Macs -- in that case if you DON'T have the module,
the Apple firmware puts the fans on full speed -- so-called "hair
dryer" mode.)