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I tend to agree with the power supply theory. Was the make and model of |
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the PS ever determined? |
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In the Jan 2005 issue of Maximum PC |
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(http://www.maximumpc.com/issue_date/january_2005/) there is an atricle |
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testing 7 ~500 watt power supplies and a 400 watt reference power supply. |
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Of the 8 PS tested, 5 including the referenced failed the tests. One power |
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supply rated at 520 watts could not even sustain 284 watts of output |
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(drawing 378 watts of AC power multiplied by an efficiency factor of 75% |
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is roughly 284 watts). It repeatedly crashed the test system during the |
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load tests. Another 500 watt power supply did not crash the system, but |
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caused strange white lines to appear on a black test screen and emitted a |
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burning smell. |
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The test system was a 3.4 GHz P4 with 3GB ram, GeFroce 6800 256MB video |
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card, 2 7,200rpm ata drives and 2 15,000rpm scsi drives, 2 optical drives, |
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SB Live! sound card, NIC and 2 120mm case fans. |
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The results: not all power supplies are equal, and strange things can |
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happen when the system is starved of power. |
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Brett |
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> Power at this house is fine. We've not had any problems as far as i can |
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> tell, and the box is on a ups that's good, so i don't think it's that |
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> either. |
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> So, no overheating, I seriously dout the ps is defective, though i guess |
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> anything is possible. What else would that leave? heh |
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> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Duncan wrote: |
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Random Thought: |
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger... |
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<Knghtbrd> m2 - that's a bad sign |
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