Good, so then we can get rid of the you-should-have-used-the-active-cooler-argument.Have you read much on this forum? Every version of the Pi does throttle to avoid cooking itself. If your Pi is overheating, it's because of some other damage that has occurred -- possibly putting too much voltage on a GPIO pin, or shorting 5V to 3V3, or similar.I don't think a Rpi 5 (or any computer) should just die in the absence of extended cooling. Normally the CPU clock speed should be throttled in the case of temperature rise above some threshold, don't you think?
I'm not convinced that your two failures have a common cause -- it's possible, but you report different symptoms, one a PMIC overheat and one a SOC overheat. Your approach, which I would paraphrase as "There must be something wrong with the design of the Pi", may well be obscuring your ability to recognise some other problem with your equipment or procedures -- again, note that it may not be the same in each of the two cases.
I agree with you that overheating should occur by some external cause, but in my first post I wrote that I have not connected anything to GPIO, on any of the two dead Pis. Just power, USB, HDMI and LAN.
That is why I tend to land in the "there must be something wrong with the Pi"-approach, since I believe that a properly designed host computer should be able to withstand theoretical problems on these ports, like shorted VBUS to ground, ESD or whatever could happen.
Statistics: Posted by sm6vfz — Mon Jul 29, 2024 8:27 pm