From: Michael Corral (email_suppressed_at_lugwash.org)
Date: Tue 13-Feb-2007 07:24:49 PM EST
2007-02-13, Monsieur Dan Pritts a ecrit:
> I think my power supply was under-powered for what i was trying
> to get out of it. (notably, run 5 hard drives).
>
> it's a pc power & cooling 310 watt. < 100 watts worth of disk
> drives at spinup, 50 watts worth under normal operation. Should
> leave plenty of headroom for the system to run, no?
>
> Apparently not. I swapped the psu out for another i have that's
> rated at 450 and i haven't had any APIC errors.
Reminds me of what happened several years ago when I replaced my
ATI Rage Fury card with a Radeon 7500. The machine started crashing
in both Windows and Linux shortly after booting. After a lot of
troubleshooting and getting nowhere, on a hunch I replaced my 300W
power supply with a generic CompUSA brand 500W PS, and all was well.
I had a bunch of drives and all my PCI slots were full, I guess the
Radeon pushed my poor old 300W PS over the edge.
Michael
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