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

Stephen Partington cryptworks at gmail.com
Tue Aug 22 20:55:39 MST 2017


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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 <Rusty.Carruth at smartm.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Power supply, heat., or software bug ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Those would be my guesses.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at 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?
>>
>>
>>
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Stephen
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