Fedora on an AMD Athlon 64 (3200+) machine

[Timothy Murphy]

Philip Prindeville wrote:

>>Thanks for the suggestion -
>>I assumed the memory was OK since I have never had problems
>>with Windows XP or i386 Fedora.
>>But I've downloaded the memtest86+ rpm,
>>and will run this tonight.

I ran memtest86 from the first CD, as recommended,
but it only got 50% of the way through
(during test 4 or 5, I think)
before crashing.
The crash occurred at different points on repetition.
so I don't think it was due to any memory fault.

>>>You also might try reducing the speed of the memory and see if that has
>>>any affect.
>>
>>How do I reduce the memory speed?
>>Do you mean reduce the CPU speed with something like cpufreq?
> 
> No.  Run with additional wait-states.  Like instead of 2/1, run with 3/2
> or 4/2...

I didn't find any such option in the BIOS setup.
But I'll take another look.

> Do you have "lm_sensors" installed and configured?  Try that.

I have lm-sensors installed, and have run detect-lmsensors ;
after this the command "sudo sensors" yields
-------------------------------------
[tim at blanche ~]$ sudo sensors
w83697hf-isa-0290
Adapter: ISA adapter
VCore:     +1.50 V  (min =  +1.71 V, max =  +1.89 V)       ALARM
+3.3V:     +3.34 V  (min =  +3.14 V, max =  +3.47 V)
+5V:       +5.03 V  (min =  +4.76 V, max =  +5.24 V)
+12V:     +11.07 V  (min = +10.82 V, max = +13.19 V)
-12V:      +0.14 V  (min = -13.18 V, max = -10.80 V)       ALARM
-5V:       +5.10 V  (min =  -5.25 V, max =  -4.75 V)       ALARM
V5SB:      +5.64 V  (min =  +4.76 V, max =  +5.24 V)       ALARM
VBat:      +0.06 V  (min =  +2.40 V, max =  +3.60 V)       ALARM
fan1:        0 RPM  (min =   44 RPM, div = 128)              ALARM
fan2:     1520 RPM  (min = 1506 RPM, div = 4)
temp1:       +24°C  (high =   +53°C, hyst =    -7°C)   sensor = thermistor
temp2:     +52.0°C  (high =   +80°C, hyst =   +75°C)   sensor = thermistor
alarms:
beep_enable:
          Sound alarm enabled
-------------------------------------

I don't really understand this.
Are there really 2 fans, one of which seems always to be off?
I guess I must read the "lm-sensors" documentation ...


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