Kurt Mosiejczuk <kurt-openbsd <at> se.rit.edu> writes: > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 03:51:36PM +0000, Dewey Hylton wrote: > > > the only real differences i see are: > > 1) bios revision > > 2) secondary disk attached to different sata port > > 3) sensors only present on working machine > > I've had this issue with the same systems. Never guessed it would be OpenBSD > specific. What I've found to make it stop happening is pulling the board > out and redoing the thermal paste for the CPU heatsink. I had found > some reference indicating that the alarm I got might be because of overheating. > > The difference between the boxes may be the attention to detail the factory > worker who put it together had that day. > > Hearing that Linux doesn't trip it, I'm wondering if it's an ACPI difference > between OpenBSD and Linux. Perhaps OpenBSD runs the CPU hotter before > turning it back over to the BIOS on reboot? > > --Kurt
this is great information; thanks. any idea where the temperature reference can be found? i may be able to log the cpu temperature in both operating systems in order to compare ...
