Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:03:11 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8-rc2 crash(s)? |
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 08:59:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > This message is now a bit old, William. > I was watching the psu voltages via gkrellm, and was seeing the 5 volt > line go from 4.89, down to 4.73 in consecutive readings. The new 420 > watt Antec, seems to be steadier at 4.87 +- 0.03 or so. > I suspect the tap point for the xx83627 chips input may not be right > at the psu connector on the mobo cause I suspect the supply itself is > probably doing 5.05 or so, although I haven't dropped my DVM on the > line to test, its rather buried behind the drive cage. But lemme go > hit a drive power connector since there are spares on this psu, brb. > Yeah, at a drive cables middle connector, with a small load on the > end, its sitting at 5.00 volts, solid as a rock. This supply has > seperate regulators for the 5 volt, and 3.3 volt lines where the > older one regulated everything against the 5 volt by turns ratios on > the transformer, and was only a 300 watter, with 2 hd's, 2 floppy's > and a dvd writer in addition to the motherboard load. > Anything else a C.E.T. can get for you?
The question is really whether all this is actually causing observable kernel/cpu/device failures.
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