Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:16:12 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Dan <dphoenix@bravenet.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: power supplies Message-ID: <XFMail.20010928111612.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010927184223.J1885-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com>
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On 28-Sep-2001 Dan wrote: > > I had the stangest situation today where a new nic card was put into a > machine and then the machine did not start up. Placed the old nic card > back in the box and it still did not start up. Switched power supplies > with an exactly equal box and both machine booted up fine. This has > happened twice since we started replacing nic cards today with ones with > more buffer space available on them out of about 8 machines now. > > Does this make any sense to anyone? The PSU might have just been on the border of delivering enough current.. I have found slightly over spec'ing the PSU is a good idea when using a UPS, because if another device powered by the UPS draws a big load the computer tends to reset :( (250w vs 300w) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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