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All, |
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Thanks a great deal for all who helped. I had the PS tested, it came |
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back good. However, apparrently the ups i had it hooked up to wasn't |
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putting out enough juice for the thing it seems. New huge ups, and the |
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machine appears to be happy.:) |
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On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Brett Johnson wrote: |
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> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 15:49:50 -0600 (CST) |
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> From: Brett Johnson <brett@××××.com> |
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> Reply-To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o |
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> To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Re: Re: mce log errors |
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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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> > |
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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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