Peter wrote:
Right now I am running the 40 GB and the 200 GB IDE drives as master and slave on the primary controller and the CDROM as master on the secondary. The USB and serial ports are working. I concluded that the 300 GB disk was bad so I am returning it. Currently I can say the only problem I am experiencing is that the system will not come back up after a (simulated) power failure (I'm using a UPS) even though I tell it to do so in the BIOS. Another point is that while in the BIOS the CPU temperature shows around 45 C which does not seem possible.
[I think I got some attributions wrong in my original reply. Apologies].
45 is awfully hot. My norm is ~25 never even getting to 30, but I have a monster heatsink with a slow/quietish 120mm fan. However, even an amd64 4000 with stock heatsink/fan doesn't get much above 40 for me at normal room temperatures.
There are only three possibilities 1) the BIOS is lying - quite possible and an update may fix that 2) the cooling in your case sucks (or doesn't suck enough :-)) 3) the heatsink isn't making that good thermal contact, but that's painful to fix compared to 1 or 2. You could check and see what sysutils/healthd reports. It doesn't get all the volatges correct, but gets temps that, for me, reasonably match the BIOS and seem believable. (mbmon doesn't, for me, recognise the monitoring chip on this board). If you haven't done a BIOS update, that might help your power-up issues. Have you looked at the ASUS support site? It may not have anything useful, but again, you have to try.
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