[MinnowBoard] MAX at 90ºC

John Hawley john.hawley at intel.com
Wed Oct 22 01:28:15 UTC 2014


Can you check if throtteling is running at all?

`find /sys | grep -i acpi_cpufreq`

or

`lsmod | grep -i acpi_cpufreq`

- John

On 10/21/2014 06:25 PM, Thiago Tenório Jordão de Vasconcelos wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Same thing with the 3.14.1. This is the last Trusty. Should I try the
> 3.15, 3.16 or 3.17 Utopic?
> 
> Atenciosamente,
> 
> Thiago Vasconcelos
> 
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> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Thiago Tenório Jordão de Vasconcelos
> <thiagottjv at gmail.com <mailto:thiagottjv at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     About the power...
> 
>     If you are using a 2.5" HD you probably don't need 12v neither 3.3v.
>     You could see on the HD's datasheet or simply remove the board and
>     see if there is a connection on the 12v and 3.3v pins.
>     Or better: get a multimeter and check resistance between the ground
>     and the 12v and 3.3v pins.
> 
>     If you see that you don't need 12v and 3.3v (like my HDs here) then
>     you just need to get a sata cable and a power sata cable and use
>     just the 5v that you power the MinnowBoard.
> 
>     The cable is like this:
>     http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/AK-SATA-SP-050-R/AE10084-ND/951594
> 
>     My best regards,
> 
>     Thiago Vasconcelos
> 
> 
>     On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Jeremy Hoel <jthoel at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jthoel at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Ahh.. Ok.  that was my next test.  But, then there's the power
>         issues and for a media playing client (xbmc) the SD would work
>         well enough.
> 
>         On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Thiago Tenório Jordão de
>         Vasconcelos <thiagottjv at gmail.com <mailto:thiagottjv at gmail.com>>
>         wrote:
> 
>             Hi Jeremy,
> 
>             I'm using a sata HD (SSD). I didn't tried with a SD card. I
>             don't like the idea of installing a OS on a SD card.
> 
>             Thiago Vasconcelos
> 
>             On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Jeremy Hoel
>             <jthoel at gmail.com <mailto:jthoel at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>                 I tried to installed Ubutu 14.04.1 this weekend and it
>                 didn't seem to want to see the SD card as a usable disk.
>                 Just the USB device that I installing from .  Did you
>                 have to do anything different to have it see the SD card?
> 
>                 On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Thiago Tenório Jordão
>                 de Vasconcelos <thiagottjv at gmail.com
>                 <mailto:thiagottjv at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>                     Ok, Thanks.
> 
>                     Just for more information...
>                     I was playing a full HD movie on VLC.
>                     The Desktop environment I am using is the Cinnamon.
> 
>                     I have a SH that you can install the environment
>                     just with the bash. I use this on my personal
>                     computer to install with Ubuntu Core (so I have a
>                     very clean install).
> 
>                     You can download it here:
> 
>                     http://thiagottjv.com/sh/cinnamon.sh
> 
>                     Thanks for the help,
> 
>                     Thiago Vasconcelos
> 
> 
>                     On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:14 PM, John 'Warthog9'
>                     Hawley <warthog19 at eaglescrag.net
>                     <mailto:warthog19 at eaglescrag.net>> wrote:
> 
>                         I'll try and get an install of that done today
>                         and have a look too
> 
>                         On 10/21/2014 10:02 AM, Thiago Tenório Jordão de
>                         Vasconcelos wrote:
>                         > Hi John,
>                         >
>                         > I'm using the last one... just downloaded, the 14.04.1.
>                         > All is updated, but I'll find somewhere I can download the 3.14 and see
>                         > if it gets better.
>                         >
>                         > Thiago Vasconcelos
>                         >
>                         > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:59 PM, John 'Warthog9' Hawley
>                         > <warthog19 at eaglescrag.net
>                         <mailto:warthog19 at eaglescrag.net>
>                         <mailto:warthog19 at eaglescrag.net
>                         <mailto:warthog19 at eaglescrag.net>>> wrote:
>                         >
>                         >     Generally speaking we only really support a 3.14 or newer, it's possible
>                         >     that the 3.13 has some missing code that might be affecting this, it
>                         >     would also help to know which version of Ubuntu Server your using.
>                         >
>                         >     - John
>                         >
>                         >     On 10/21/2014 09:55 AM, Thiago Tenório Jordão de Vasconcelos wrote:
>                         >     > Hi David,
>                         >     >
>                         >     > I'm using the *Ubuntu Server* with kernel *3.13.0.32*.
>                         >     >
>                         >     > Thiago Vasconcelos
>                         >     >
>                         >     > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:40 PM, David Anders <danders at circuitco.com
>                         <mailto:danders at circuitco.com>
>                         <mailto:danders at circuitco.com
>                         <mailto:danders at circuitco.com>>
>                         >     > <mailto:danders at circuitco.com
>                         <mailto:danders at circuitco.com>
>                         <mailto:danders at circuitco.com
>                         <mailto:danders at circuitco.com>>>> wrote:
>                         >     >
>                         >     >     Thiago,
>                         >     >
>                         >     >     any processor, x86 or otherwise, without the correct thermal
>                         >     >     throttling can get extremely hot. based on your description i would
>                         >     >     suspect the distro you are running has an older kernel that is not
>                         >     >     doing proper thermal throttling.
>                         >     >
>                         >     >     what distro and kernel are you using?
>                         >     >
>                         >     >     Dave
>                         >     >
>                         >     >
>                         >     >     On 10/21/2014 11:37 AM, Thiago Tenório Jordão de Vasconcelos wrote:
>                         >     >>     Hi guys,
>                         >     >>
>                         >     >>     I just would like to know if is ok if the CPU is working at 90ºC.
>                         >     >>     I'm just testing the MAX... I put one movie playing (full HD)...
>                         >     >>     Its using all the CPU to play it.
>                         >     >>     The good thing is that the MAX play it wonderful! xD
>                         >     >>
>                         >     >>     I installed *lm-sensors* so I could see what is the temperature
>                         >     >>     (since the heatsink is untouchable) and I got the 90ºC.
>                         >     >>
>                         >     >>     Is that ok to let it working at this temperature?
>                         >     >>
>                         >     >>     My best regards,
>                         >     >>
>                         >     >>     Thiago Vasconcelos
>                         >     >>
>                         >     >>
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