From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 7 13: 0:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-172.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC76937B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 13:00:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f47K0Gu03064; Mon, 7 May 2001 16:00:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 16:00:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: Jamie Norwood Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Lockups with -Stable on Athlon In-Reply-To: <20010507152915.B95852@mushhaven.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (Forwarded to -stable, due to relevance to a prior comment of mine.) On Mon, 7 May 2001, Jamie Norwood wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:19:36PM -0400, Chris BeHanna wrote: > > AMD specs a 400W power supply for a T-bird. I don't know why the > > other OSes work fine, but I would not try much more in the > > hair-pulling department until you upgrade to an in-spec. power supply. > > Antec makes a nice one with a bottom intake that can be had for around > > $100, including shipping (that's what I'm running). Your 250-watter > > can then power your kids' Windoze box. > > Holy shit. Do you have a link on this spec? I just put a machine together > for my uncle with a 250w PS and a 1.33Mhz Tbird, but it was a windoze box... http://www1.amd.com/athlon/npower/index/1,1712,,00.html Looks like I spoke out of turn. *Some* mfgrs. power supplies are OK at 300W. *NO* 250W power supplies are listed. > www.coolerguys.com has a great 431wPS that I have in my personal system. > Has the downward fan, yet is far quieter than the 300w Antec it replaced, > for 99.99+shipping. Hmm. I bought Antec based upon a power supply review I read about two years ago, in which an Antec 300W power supply came out on top in terms of system stability when powering a K6-2 500Mhz chip. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message