I ran into a troubling issue yesterday which has never crept up before.
I have a year and a half old homebuilt box,
The specs of the box are...
Biostar MCP6P3 Ver. 6.x Nvidia Nforce 430 / GeForce 6150 mainboard.
AMD Athlon II X4 640 quad core CPU.
Corsair Vengance 2x4GB DDR3
2x1 TB WD SATA 3 HDD. 800 GB Windows 7, 1.2TB CentOS 6.3 dual boot. (This will eventually change, Windows 7 will end up as a VM under CentOS...)
PATA DVDRW drive. If I recall correctly Samsung.
No add in cards of any sort, no RAID etc...
Yeseterday I attempted to use this box, which gets little use, to speed up the process of encoding DVD to mp4 conversions so that I can stash my DVD media away and stream my collection over my network... I ran into a snag...
Using Handbrake to encode the files, I get a warning from Norton Internet Security about high resource usage, and then the box shuts down...
Now I would expect if this was a processor, mainboard, or RAM issue it would BSOD, but no, not even. It just shuts down. QUICKLY.
I grabbed Prime95 to test, and same thing. So I booted to CentOS, and found the same thing. And it wasn't like it just abruptly yanked power. It is quite obvious that a shutdown command was initiated by SOMETHING...
Is it possible that maybe my thermal thresholds on the CPU are set too low in the BIOS? Hitting that 100% heats the chip up and throws the shutdown command?
Other than this, the box has been running smooth as butter since build day. I am not overclocking it, for the most part this box exists so that my wife can play Facebook games, work spreadsheets etc...
I have a year and a half old homebuilt box,
The specs of the box are...
Biostar MCP6P3 Ver. 6.x Nvidia Nforce 430 / GeForce 6150 mainboard.
AMD Athlon II X4 640 quad core CPU.
Corsair Vengance 2x4GB DDR3
2x1 TB WD SATA 3 HDD. 800 GB Windows 7, 1.2TB CentOS 6.3 dual boot. (This will eventually change, Windows 7 will end up as a VM under CentOS...)
PATA DVDRW drive. If I recall correctly Samsung.
No add in cards of any sort, no RAID etc...
Yeseterday I attempted to use this box, which gets little use, to speed up the process of encoding DVD to mp4 conversions so that I can stash my DVD media away and stream my collection over my network... I ran into a snag...
Using Handbrake to encode the files, I get a warning from Norton Internet Security about high resource usage, and then the box shuts down...
Now I would expect if this was a processor, mainboard, or RAM issue it would BSOD, but no, not even. It just shuts down. QUICKLY.
I grabbed Prime95 to test, and same thing. So I booted to CentOS, and found the same thing. And it wasn't like it just abruptly yanked power. It is quite obvious that a shutdown command was initiated by SOMETHING...
Is it possible that maybe my thermal thresholds on the CPU are set too low in the BIOS? Hitting that 100% heats the chip up and throws the shutdown command?
Other than this, the box has been running smooth as butter since build day. I am not overclocking it, for the most part this box exists so that my wife can play Facebook games, work spreadsheets etc...