aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom peter nikolic wrote thursday 14 february 2008 per jessen wrote greg freemyer wrote per dont know measured load important measure short power surges particular im suspicious load raid1 resync could technique catch 10 msec spike etc nope chance see reply carlos think spikes causing trouble sata drives dont know know new power supplies major source error reports lkml last year extremely routine even new 650w supplies interesting sata drives causing problems far system still less stable load per jessen zürich made certain good thermal connection cpu heatsink sounds like problem machine turned need cleanup new thermal compound reseat heatsink problems since might worth look one spec dust fractionally big could cause untold hassle dont use godawful thermal putty use good thermal grease like zalman zmstg1 arctic silver arctic silver 5 arctic silver ceramique way greases designed slight vibration fan heat sink slowly push larger particles larger gaps thus optimal heat transfer cpu heat sink happen initially take couple weeks zalman 2x price typical silverbased grease comes nice bottle fingernail polish brush cap apply nice even coat across surfaces without ending excess oozing place tue 05 aug 2008 033711 0500 opensuse ot much power pc really consume