On Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would go with Hammann with
> > "Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU."
> >
> > Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how
> > major an effect it can have on systems. A dodgy PSU in my experience
> > can do everything from -CAUSING- overheating, to random shutoffs, and
> > MURDERING hard drives.
> > I had one which killed 3 Hard Drives before I realised thats what the
> > problem was, and the last hard drive was so cooked it didn't even spin
> > up.
> >
> > --
>
> Joy. I should certainly hope it is NOT the PSU as it is new, and replaced a
> dead one.
>
> ("New" as in "bought sometime in the summer")6 month are enough time for a PSU to become bad. Tomshardware just run a nice PSU test - the results were devastating. Only 4 of the 9 PSUs survived the test. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
