cpu overheating

[Robin Laing]

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 12:58 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 20:15 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > It is a well-known fact that faulty software can overheat CPUs.
> 
> I was thinking about something like this the other day.  I'm just
> finishing off putting a PC together for a friend, and have been using it
> to stress test it.  What I'd like is an automated stress testing tool,
> not one that tries to break it, but tests that things that should be
> do-able, are, without having to manually check the serial ports,
> parallel ports, video ports, that the CPU can do all its math and get
> the answers right, etc.  There's memtest86+ (though I've heard some
> detractors say it can give false results), but I haven't heard of
> anything to test other parts of the system.
> 
> -- 
> (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.)
> 
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> I read messages from the public lists.
> 

This disk has a system Burn-In test on it.  There are also other tests
as well.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/


FWIW, my computer died (well shutdown) on the weekend due to over
heating.  A can of dust off, a few clouds of dust later and the computer
is back up and running 24/7.