[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk overheating on VIA Epia M Series motherboard

[Paul]

C F, that is generally true but VIA actually sells these boards with 
fanless CPU(feature). Get a good fan(the kind you want blowing in your 
face on a hot day). Position it so it blows lots of air into the open 
case. If that provides greatly extended runtime for asterisk, you know 
it is a heat problem. If you are using a DC-DC fanless power supply you 
probably need to add a case fan. The CPU heatsink dissipates heat into 
the surrounding air. That heat needs to get out of the case somehow.

C F wrote:

>As you suspected, the problem is the fact that you don't have a fan.
>Since a machine that runs just a file server does not require much CPU
>power, the CPU doesn't get too hot. However Asterisk does use lots of
>CPU, therefore the CPU is hot, and yes the problem of stopping to work
>is because of the CPU being overheated, you are lucky that the
>computer booted after that, in most cases the overheating of a CPU
>means that the CPU expanded too much, when you shut it down it cools
>off, and shrinks, which could result in cracking the CPU. You should
>never run a CPU without it's fan if it's meant to run with a fan. Even
>if running it just as a file server. The fact that you are lucky
>doesn't mean that you don't need a fan.
>
>On 9/5/05, Angus Comber <angus at iteloffice.com> wrote:
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>>Hello
>>
>>I am running Asterisk on SUSE Linux Professional 9.3 on a VIA Epia M Series
>>motherboard - CPU runs at 1GHz.  There is no fan - just a large heatsink.
>>Currently system is running off standard IDE hard drive - because I couldn't
>>get astlinux to run with my Digium TDM04B card (only PCI card in system).
>>
>>Strangely I also have the same system also running SUSE Linux running as a
>>file server and that does not run so hot and does not overheat?  Why the
>>difference?
>>
>>Just booting up both systems for 15 minutes you can tell the Asterisk box is
>>quite a bit hotter.  Also the Asterisk box overheated (well think that was
>>the problem) and stopped operating as PBX at one stage.
>>
>>Anyone any experience of this sort of thing?  any ideas how to fix - ideally
>>I don't want to have to fit a fan.
>>
>>Is SUSE not the best distro to use for this sort of thing?  Should it be
>>something to take up with VIA?
>>
>>Angus
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