From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 27 19:53:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gandalf.vi.bravenet.com (gandalf.bravenet.com [139.142.105.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C719737B409 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12317 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Sep 2001 03:04:40 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Sep 2001 03:04:40 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 20:04:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan To: Cc: Subject: Re: power supplies In-Reply-To: <3BB3E2BF.648840A7@owt.com> Message-ID: <20010927200213.U1885-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 ya but even putting the old nic back in the machine does not still boot up. I don't think this has to do with the nic but you never know. fxp1: On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Kent Stewart wrote: > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:38:55 -0700 > From: Kent Stewart > Reply-To: kbstew99@hotmail.com > To: Dan > Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: power supplies > > > > 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? > > There are problems with PSes when you use NICs with wake up > capability. The NIC may exceed the capability of one of your low > amperage voltages. > > Kent > > > > > -- > > Dan > > > > +------------------------------------------------------+ > > | BRAVENET WEB SERVICES | > > | dan@bravenet.com | > > | screen;cd /usr/src;make buildworld;cd ~ | > > | cp MYKERNEL /sys/i386/conf;cd /usr/src | > > | make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL | > > |make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL;make installworld| > > +______________________________________________________+ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com > http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message