On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 09:46:58PM -0500, Tim Cook wrote: > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Willard Korfhage > <opensola...@familyk.org>wrote: > > > It certainly has symptoms that match a marginal power supply, but I > > measured the power consumption some time ago and found it comfortably within > > the power supply's capacity. I've also wondered if the RAM is fine, but > > there is just some kind of flaky interaction of the ram configuration I had > > with the motherboard. > > > I think the confusion is that you said you ran memtest86+ and the memory > tested just fine. Did you remove some memory before running memtest86+ and > narrow it down to a certain stick being bad or something? Your post makes > it sound as though you found that all of the ram is working perfectly fine.
Exactly. > Also, a low power draw doesn't mean much of anything. The power supply > could just be dying. Or just one part of it could be overloaded (like a particular 5v or 12v rail that happens to be shared between too many drives and the m/b), even if the overall draw at the wall is less than the total rating. Sometimes, just moving plugs around can help - or at least show that a better psu is warranted. -- Dan.
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