On Saturday 15 Sep 2012 17:28:26 Daniel Frey wrote: > Well, it turns out it was my PSU. The voltage drop on the 5V line was > 4.08, but it would slowly warm up to 4.95V, then the PC would behave > normally. I opened the PSU and there was a ruptured cap. > > I've replaced it and the problems are all gone. > > I guess it was not really a coincidence that the failure happened after > a major update. This isn't the first time an `emerge -pvuDN world` > killed my computer. :-) > > Dan > > On 09/13/2012 07:20 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 09/12/2012 09:49 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> So about a month ago I decided to update my kernel to the dreaded 3.x > >>> series. My old 2.6.x kernel ... > >> > >> FYI Linus Torvalds says there was no change between 2.6 and 3.0. A > >> quote: > >> > >> So what are the big changes? NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. Sure, we > >> have the usual two thirds driver > >> changes, and a lot of random fixes, but the point is that 3.0 is > >> *just* about renumbering, we are very much *not* doing a KDE-4 or a > >> Gnome-3 here. No breakage, no special scary new features, nothing at > >> all like that. > >> > >> You can read his entire letter here: > >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/29/204 > >> > >> Chris > > > > When I updated, I knew about changes in 3.2 that affected USB keyboard > > wake in suspend (& mostly how it deals with acpi. Most of the stuff > > moved to /sys/devices, the normal /proc/acpi/wakeup didn't really do > > anything.) This affected many users over many distros. > > > > It also changed how lirc works, although that happened around 2.6.38??, > > so my htpc frontend is still on 2.6.32. When I tried updating that > > machine to 3.0, nothing worked and I spent about a day troubleshooting > > it before I put the image I took of it before I upgraded it back on. > > > > Dan
I was also replacing capacitors last weekend. It is a good idea to upgrade them if there are alternatives of a higher maximum temperature as they will probably last longer. A belts & braces approach is to add another/larger case fan to keep the in-case temperatures lower. -- Regards, Mick
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