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

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...


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> *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.
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>
>
> is five years about the life span of a power supply?
>
>
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> 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?
>
>
>
> --
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>
>
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