Thanks Ian, Bill, Mike, Jim, Maurice, Austin and anyone else that I may
have overlooked. Who says no support for Linux???
After consideration of all of the info forwarded to me, I have decided
upon a course of action. Admittedly, this path was decided by, 1. ease
of execution, and 2., ease of execution. Of course, some logic leaked
into the mix. (Like cooling everything off!)
A few items to answer your queries:
1. The box is a full tower with 3 cooling fans. Two are
exhaust and one intake. (From memory).
2. Each CPU has it's own fan. I don't remember the
manufactures' name, but I told the builder not to cut
corners here.
3. Each HD has a cooling fan and the HD's spin down after
about 15 minutes.
4. Total fans= 7.
5. I have a 400 watt power supply.
6. The memory is ECC Registered 266Mhz DDR SDRAM (1.5 gig)
7. I am running the distributed client for RC5-64 (for
three years!)100 % CPU capacity at all times.
Other Info:
Ambient temperature ranges from about 81.9 to 86.2 F.
Output temperature taken at the cases' midpoint fan ranges from 97F to
92.7F.
Action:
1. I am attempting to cool my computer room to below
80F-some success already.
2. I will update all drivers to current RH 7.3 standards
using the RH update tool.
3. I will flash the bios (if needed). Why is it the docs
say that you cannot use Windows or Dos 7.0 or above to
do the flash?? Well, I still have a set of Dos 6.22 around
somewhere.
I hope that the above makes sense. Thanks for all of you're input.
I'll start after a quick nap to freshen the mind.
If any others are interested and want to comment, fire away.
I'll let you know how this proceeds. (I'll also look up my receipt and
verify that all of the fans are top shelf!)
Thanks and sorry this is so long,
TIA,
Al
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