Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:09:35 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> Cc: youshi10@u.washington.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load 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> <F3441A15-7CD9-4B7E-8AE9-359B59658C82@u.washington.edu> <436E9DF0.1080408@ywave.com> <436F1779.7090807@u.washington.edu> <436F6B5F.9000304@ywave.com>
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Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> 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
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