From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 27 18:46:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8744637B40A for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:46:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07358; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:16:13 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010927184223.J1885-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:16:12 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Dan Subject: RE: power supplies Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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