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~(-: >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: