Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 23:44:20 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, mckay@thehub.com.au, Brady Montz <bradym@mail.hydrologue.com> Subject: Re: VIA crahes - solved (it seems)! Message-ID: <200201161344.g0GDiKb16672@dungeon.home> In-Reply-To: <200201151952.LAA02454@mina.soco.agilent.com> from Darryl Okahata at "Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:52:04 %2B0000" References: <200201152314.g0FNEvn29022@mail.hydrologue.com> <200201151952.LAA02454@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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On Tuesday, 15th January 2002, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Also, I've looked over your postings for the past month, and I >can't tell if you've tried the obvious: do you have a known good power >supply? Some motherboards need really clean power, and AMD chips are >power hogs. Borderline power supplies can easily cause the symptoms >you're seeing. I can attest that borderline power supplies can cause a lot of mysterious trouble, and that the "borderline" has moved in recent times. My Athlon 1.2GHz started acting just slightly weird when I added a better video card (Geforce2 GTS actually). I got sick of that card and added a more powerful all-singing all-dancing ASUS video card (Geforce2 GTS Pro with lots of ram, TV in, TV out, all that jazz). When I did this, very weird things happened, including complete boot failures. Replacing the power supply (that had "300W" written on it) with an Enermax 430W seemed over the top to the sales droid, but fixed 100% of my problems. Well worth the expense, though I would have tried a less powerful version if the store had had, say, the 350W version. If weird things are happening and your RAM checks out (in another machine) then you could be the victim of a substandard power supply. Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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