[iyonix-support] Re: Pyjamas & Heat
- From: charles <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 19:42:39 +0100
In article <4e72332d0ajohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
John Schild <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <4527E5BF.4050308@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Thomas
> <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[Snip]
> > Since then I've not seen pyjamas once. This makes me wonder if some
> > of the problems people are seeing are purely down to poor cooling.
> > The nVidia card does seem to kick out more heat than anything else
> > inside the case.
> Precisely the point I made in a mailing of 12th July:
> > > After I upgraded to RO5.11 many months ago pyjamas disappeared,
> > > having previously been v. frequent. That is until the recent rise
> > > in ambient temperature which took my Panther's on-board thermometer
> > > up to 40 degrees C for the first time ever. Pyjamas now
> > > occasionally recur. Nothing else internal or external has been
> > > changed.
> > > Is there a temperature effect which we've never isolated out?
> At the time nobody picked it up......
One of the big problems with computer faults is that very few people think
of underlying, very basic, hardware problems. The faulty PSU was a case in
point. The original diagnosis was a faulty cable between the MB and the
Hard Drive, then probably a faulty hard drive, then a problem with the
router ......
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From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"
Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11
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