Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Oct 2002 20:47:21 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Update on e1000 troubles (over-heating!) |
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I have a pair of Compaq e1000's which have never overheated, and I use them for heavy duty iSCSI testing and designing of drivers. These are massive 66/64 cards but still nothing like what you are reporting.
I will look some more at the issue soon.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick iSCSI Software Solutions Provider http://www.PyXTechnologies.com/
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Ben Greear wrote:
> I believe I have figured out why the e1000 crashed my machine > after .5 - 1 hours: The NIC was over-heating. I measured one of > the NICs after the machine crashed with an external (cheap) temp > probe. It registered right at 50 degrees C, and this was about 15-30 > seconds after it crashed. > > The dual e1000 NIC I have seems to run much cooler, and has been > running at 430Mbps bi-directional on both ports for about 6 hours now > with no obvious problems. > > So, I'm going to try to purchase some heat sinks and glue them onto > the e1000 server nics, to see if that fixes the problem. > > Hope this proves useful to anyone experiencing similar strange > crashes! > > Thanks, > Ben > > -- > Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> <Ben_Greear AT excite.com> > President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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