From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 15:09:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9A516A432 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:09:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D3243D46 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:09:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from localhost (unknown [24.53.250.148]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E6F69A4D; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:09:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:09:35 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Micah Message-Id: <20051107100935.31771357.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <436F6B5F.9000304@ywave.com> References: <436E739E.8020605@ywave.com> <436E7599.9090003@cs.earlham.edu> <436E7D4E.6080707@ywave.com> <436E9DF0.1080408@ywave.com> <436F1779.7090807@u.washington.edu> <436F6B5F.9000304@ywave.com> Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: youshi10@u.washington.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:09:38 -0000 Micah wrote: > I'm running the i386 version of FreeBSD with 1gb ram. Didn't think to > check this before, but I'm getting ~112-113 volts into the PSU from the > surge strip. I'm probably going to get a new PSU today. The parts > store has a couple of 400 watters in the $50 range (a fortron and a > thermaltake). I'm coming to this conversation late, so I apologize if this information has already been presented. Cheap power supplies are a near guarantee that your computer will be unstable. Unfortunately, $cheap doesn't always == quality cheap. This article is the best I've ever seen for describing how important a PS is to a computer, and how difficult it is to find a reliable one: http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20040122/index.html -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com