Re: Well.... I think my power-supply is going.

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Author: Michael
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Subject: Re: Well.... I think my power-supply is going.
this computer is very open. It has three holes to the outside world in it.
I actually thought to myself that I should blow it out a couple of weeks
ago but fogot I had the hand blower and kept forgetting to buy compressed
air to do it.


On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:55 PM, Stephen Partington <>
wrote:

> Cheaper power supplies are pron to their capacitors failing. this is
> ultimately what will destabilize them. but if after you cooled the system
> off and cleaned out the schmutz and it stabilizes then you might have a
> solution there. Also consider fan/airflow as well.
>
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Michael <> wrote:
>
>> you know.... I think it was the heat build up. It crashed multiple times.
>> I blew it off and started it again. It crashed again. I must not have given
>> it enough time to cool because I let it sit for 20-30 minutes and now it
>> isn't crashing.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Carruth, Rusty <
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Power supply, heat., or software bug ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Those would be my guesses.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] *On
>>> Behalf Of *Michael
>>> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 22, 2017 4:12 PM
>>> *To:* PLUG
>>> *Subject:* Well.... I think my power-supply is going.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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~(-:
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>
> --
> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>
> Stephen
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