Messages in this thread | | | From | (Bob_Tracy) | Subject | Cyrix cooling (Re: RH5.2 won't install on Cyrix) | Date | Fri, 5 Mar 1999 08:15:46 -0600 (CST) |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > Linux "hits" it. Besides inventing methods of cooling off the CPU > > there is a way of trying some other distribution of Linux. Well, > > is there a way where I can trick RH to belive that the CPU isn't > > overheated? Some BIOS trick? > > If you fix your hardware. Then you won't need to trick it. If you managed > to trick the chip into not noticing it had overheated and thus doing a > thermal powerdown it would just damage itself.
AFTER you take care of getting some adequate cooling in the peecee case (heat sink w/thermal compound, ball-bearing CPU fan, case fan OTHER than the puny throwaway in the power supply, etc.), look up a nifty utility called 'set6x86' and pay particular attention to how you set suspend-on-halt to drastically reduce the power consumption of your Cyrix. For me, set6x86 made the difference between having a useful machine, and getting signal 11's everytime I tried to compile the kernel. Yeah, I'll be trying something besides Cyrix the next time around unless they are designing their newer CPUs with a bit more margin in the heat dissipation department. I'd hate to think what kind of problems I would be having with a "normal" Cyrix CPU: mine is a 6x86L, as in "low power".
On the plus side, my machine has been stable for well over a year after taking all the measures described above. Bottom line: the Cyrix will work fine for you, but you absolutely HAVE to pay attention to the heat issue or it will eat your lunch. I can envision environments where a Peltier cooler would be necessary... A year ago when I was seriously looking into such things, they could be had for around US $30.
-- Bob Tracy | "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist- " Firewall Security Corp. | - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick, rct@frus.com | Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War
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