is my power supply dieing?

[Michael]

Thanks for the tip! I'd love to come get it but the distance makes it
prohibitive. I live in Florida But you think replacing the power
supply unit will do it?

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:00 AM Donald Mac McCarthy <mac at oscontext.com> wrote:
>
> Some boards have 2 fans for CPU - especially boards designed for
> overclocking. The face that you don't have any voltage/RPMs across the
> fan3 may not be a problem.
>
> The only way you are going to be sure to tell it is a power supply is
> generally to replace it. You could replace CPU, memory, or board one at
> a time, but those are generally more expensive than a PSU.
>
> I have had many times that the PSU was the issue when running a compute
> cluster years ago. In one case the PSW was not getting enough airflow
> due to the positional design of the chassis vs the fan location of a
> replacement CPU which had undergone a spec change, and therefore wouls
> reach thermal protection shutdown. In another, a thermal expansion in a
> PSU component when under load would cause a short, and the system would
> shutoff. In another case - dirty output due to a power limiting
> component that was failing cause all kinds of problems, eventually
> causing us to have to replace RAM, CPU, MB, and a RAID card because of
> "brown out" type situations. We were only to know what happened after
> the manufacturer did some testing on the RMAed PSU. When you have 850
> servers all built assembled from components (academic environment where
> the Professor got more systems for his grant money by buying components
> and using undergrad/graduate research assistants to assemble them), some
> interesting things happen, may of them were power supply related.
>
> Good luck, but I think you may save more in time and effort to just
> replace it. I have a 400W ATX powersupply you can have if you want to
> come get it. I am not sure how much wattage you need, but if 400 will
> cut it - that one can be yours for the low low price of gas money.
>
> Mac
>
> Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote on 7/13/20 8:41 PM:
> > inxi tells me this about my fans:
> >
> > Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 fan-1: 3139 fan-3: 0
> >
> > So my cpu fan isn't working. I thought my computer would CRASH/FREEZE
> > more often if the cpu fan wasn't working.  What is: fan-1: 3139 fan-3:
> > 0
> >
> > I'm not sure but I think my power supply fan is running slow. Is that a thing?
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 11:26 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> hey....  I forgot to tell ya all that last night after I put the
> >> system under stress I got it to freeze.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:29 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> when I'm just running memory test the temp is 46
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 8:06 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> that was it under stress.
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 4:55 PM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss
> >>>> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> >>>>> If that's your idle temperature, that is terrible.  I'll bet if you run
> >>>>> stress while monitoring your temperature you'll see it shoot up even
> >>>>> higher than that.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> (I cook chicken sous vide at 60C)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Brian Cluff
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 7/13/20 10:05 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> >>>>>> Do 80 is bad? Mine was at 89 when I first started it
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