On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Carruth, Rusty <Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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?

 

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