Hot to the touch

[bigguyone]

Hi, Iam having a prob with pi. It seams to be running hoter them I remember & it turns off and restarts. I run it all day & its fine & then late afternoon it starts turning off. I don't notice it runnimh all that hot tills on about 5 to 6 hrs. Its pretty hot on the two chips area.I don't recall it being this hot before, its not over clock & pretty norm setup. It has raspbmc on it.

any one know what it mite be doing?

[FLYFISH TECHNOLOGIES]

Hi,

What peripherals are connected to the RasPi ?


Best wishes, Ivan Zilic.

[rpdom]

The chips will often feel hot to the touch. That is quite normal and normally nothing to worry about.

What temperature does the system report when you do

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vcgencmd measure_temp

as long as that is under 85°C the CPU/GPU is within acceptable temperature range.

The shutting down thing is a bit worrying. The first things I would check are the power supply (measure the voltage between TP1 and TP2), and, as Ivan said, any peripherals that are connected to the USB or GPIOs

[bigguyone]

Hi the only things are a mouse & keyboard, ( not WIFI) power is what came with it as it was a package deal.
The temp if i did it right (went to XBMC system info ) is 128F to 131F

[GTR2Fan]

That's around 54°C which I'd say was perfectly normal when idling in XBMC.

[DougieLawson]

Hi the only things are a mouse & keyboard, ( not WIFI) power is what came with it as it was a package deal.
The temp if i did it right (went to XBMC system info ) is 128F to 131F

When you convert those temps back to a sensible international temperature unit they aren't outside a normal range (53.3 to 55). [I've yet to work out why the US of A sticks with non-SI units. I can see why we don't use SI units for normal ambient values.]

[bigguyone]

Hi prob because to sounds better LOL. Yea iam not sure what its doing but just started over the past few days doing this, I havent added any new addons or changed anything so not sure. i woundering if my SDcard mite be going bad i have heard they cut off and then dont have any program on it. Iam also trying to set up a usb stick but i dont know how to do that just yet. There are some good info on how to do it but i dont know how to get into the code thing yet . so if anyone knows what to do on that it would be great.

[DougieLawson]

I checked both of my RPis. Pi is running at 45.4°C, raspberry is running at 44.5°C.

[bigguyone]

Well i guess mine is doing ok as temp gos. I dont know maybe it is the SDcard