On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Carruth, Rusty wrote: > Personally, 5 years is nothing in the life of a power supply, unless it is > overloaded. > Two words - Chinese Crap. I've had PSU's last 6 months to 10 years, it's just really random anymore. Nothing is guaranteed with the crap coming over seas anymore, regardless what you spend or what brand. > > Look in syslog and see if it says anything interesting (syslog, messages, > whatever). > Agree, see if the system gives you any errors prior to the reboot looking at times leading up to immediate the reboot. > > > Do you have lmsensors installed? Does it show anything bad? > Voltage should be reflected, but usually this will look normal until under load. If that's normal and still pops off like that, it sounds like a bad capacitor is destabilizing and the system shuts down under load, which wouldn't be indicated by the voltage readings. It does sound a bit like a PSU from what I'm hearing where under demand it'll just shut off... > > *From:* PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] *On > Behalf Of *Michael > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 22, 2017 4:45 PM > *To:* PLUG > *Subject:* Re: Well.... I think my power-supply is going. > > > > is five years about the life span of a power supply? > > > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Michael wrote: > > I'm thinking this is a darktable thing as it has been 30 minutes since the > restart and when it was restarting it went about five minutes. Any ideas as > to what to do? > > > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Michael wrote: > > The computer keeps shutting itself off. :( > > So I remembered that I had a blower for this and I blew it out and we'll > see what happens. The funny thing is that it only seems to do it after I > start darktable. I am guessing that it is because dt uses the cpu more. I > don't know..... Well, we'll start darktable now and see what happens..... > darn. it shut itself off! so this does sound like the power supply? > > > > -- > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > >