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From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
	Tomas Ogren <stric@ing.umu.se>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fried the onboard Broadcom 4401 network...
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 23:34:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401262334.39975.andrew@walrond.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040126123023.GA27087@mail.shareable.org>

On Monday 26 Jan 2004 12:30 pm, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> I was startled when I bought a power meter to find that my computers
> and even some monitors consume power when switched off.  I don't mean
> "soft" off - even with the mechanical switch in the off position they
> still consume significant power.
>
> My AMD box consumes about 15W of power when the mechanical switch on
> its power supply is off.  About 35W when the mechanical switch is on
> but the computer is in the "soft off" state (i.e. what you get when
> you ask it to turn itself off).
>

I've got some dual xeon machines where the psu's get too hot to touch when 
switched _off_! Thankfully they run cool when switched on (and the fan is 
running) I've always assumed some sort of fault, but maybe not...

Andrew Walrond


      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-26 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-25  2:42 Fried the onboard Broadcom 4401 network Tomas Ogren
2004-01-25  8:37 ` Andrew Walrond
2004-01-25 13:15   ` Tomas Ogren
2004-01-26  9:08 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-26  9:48   ` Tomas Ogren
2004-01-26  9:56     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-26 12:30     ` Jamie Lokier
2004-01-26 23:34       ` Andrew Walrond [this message]

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