From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267390AbUG2BDR (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:03:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267392AbUG2BDR (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:03:17 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:24976 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267390AbUG2BDO (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:03:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:03:11 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Gene Heskett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2 crash(s)? Message-ID: <20040729010311.GM2334@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Gene Heskett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200407242156.40726.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <200407250037.51874.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20040729001234.GK2334@holomorphy.com> <200407282059.03524.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200407282059.03524.gene.heskett@verizon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 08:59:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > This message is now a bit old, William. > I was watching the psu voltages via gkrellm, and was seeing the 5 volt > line go from 4.89, down to 4.73 in consecutive readings. The new 420 > watt Antec, seems to be steadier at 4.87 +- 0.03 or so. > I suspect the tap point for the xx83627 chips input may not be right > at the psu connector on the mobo cause I suspect the supply itself is > probably doing 5.05 or so, although I haven't dropped my DVM on the > line to test, its rather buried behind the drive cage. But lemme go > hit a drive power connector since there are spares on this psu, brb. > Yeah, at a drive cables middle connector, with a small load on the > end, its sitting at 5.00 volts, solid as a rock. This supply has > seperate regulators for the 5 volt, and 3.3 volt lines where the > older one regulated everything against the 5 volt by turns ratios on > the transformer, and was only a 300 watter, with 2 hd's, 2 floppy's > and a dvd writer in addition to the motherboard load. > Anything else a C.E.T. can get for you? The question is really whether all this is actually causing observable kernel/cpu/device failures. -- wli