On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 03:11:57PM -0400, John Drescher wrote: > BTW, What processor do you have? 60C is normal for laptops and some Pentium4 > chips. > > John The box is a desktop (misnomer? 19" tall case) not a laptop. The cpu is an Athlon XP 1800+. I am not a gamer and have found no need to upgrade for any of the applications I use. Tom > > On 10/10/06, Thomas H. George <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 09:27:46AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> >> Fix your hardware. No software package should ever cause the cpu to > >> >overheat till it needs to shutdown. This is either a hardware problem > >or > >> >your room is way too hot. The first thing I would do is check the cpu > >fan > >> >and blow the dust out of it. > >> > >> > >> When I think of it there are a few other options. Some computers have > >> software controlled fans so if the fan is not being controlled correctly > >by > >> software this can happen. Also are you 100% sure that the cpu is > >overheating > >> sometimes temp sensors do not read correctly. > >> > >> John > > > >Yes, I'm sure. When I shutdown I checked BIOS before rebooting. By > >that time the cpu temperature had dropped to 59 C. (The alarm is set for > >60 C.) and both the cpu fan and the case fan were running normally. I > >watched until the cpu temperature was down to 55 C before rebooting. > > > >Note that this problem has never occurred before and only recurred when > >I restarted the wine application. > > > >Tom > > > >_______________________________________________ > >wine-users mailing list > >wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > >http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > > > > > -- > John M. Drescher > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
