[CSC 415] Systems Overheating

[Andrew J. Pounds]

Good evening everyone.  I was alerted to a system problem this morning 
in GSC 405.  When I got there one of the systems had rebooted into 
windows.  Further investigation revealed that the hard drive had 
overheated, the system shut down, automatically rebooted, and booted 
into windows due to the failed linux boot drive.  Another system is 
indicating similar drive failures.  A third system has a failing hard 
drive -- but it is not a boot drive.

In all cases Mercer IT has to come over and clear out the Dell error 
logs for the systems to boot properly.   The system with the failed boot 
drive will take longer because I don't have a spare drive to put in 
there. Anyway, due to these hardware errors I am temporarily asking you 
not to use GSC 405.

Research students -- you are welcome to use the systems in GSC 218 on 
Tuesdays and Thursdays and on MWF afternoons.  You will need to reboot 
those systems into linux (I'll show you how to do that) but all of the 
programs you use should work down there too.   Graphics students -- I'm 
going to try and get enough systems functioning tomorrow so we can have 
class in the lab the rest of the week.  We will not have class 
tomorrow.  I will provide you with a video lecture on texture mapping to 
replace the class you are missing tomorrow.

As a side note -- please do not adjust the thermostat in GSC 405.   I 
try to keep it at its lowest setting to avoid problems like I 
experienced this weekend.


-- 
*/Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D./*
/Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science/
/Director of the Computational Science Program/
/Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627/
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