[techtalk] Re: Time for a new computer
- From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: techtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 02:59:47 +0100
* Thomas Hurst (tom.hurst@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Thankfully, I'm now running my i7, albeit a 920 instead of a W3520.
> Sadly it's not been entirely smooth, having random poweroffs and dodgy
> poweron.
>
> I appear to have resolved this, however; I bought a molex -> 8 pin
> EPS12v connector, using the one on the PSU to drive the 4 pin ATX
> connector this mobo also "needs". It was suggested that molex
> probably isn't sufficient to drive EPS12v properly, and indeed now
> I've dropped that and left the 4 pin ATX connector unconnected, things
> seem to be much happier.
Or so I thought.
This morning: power on, no problem, runs for 8 hours. Then power drops
out with a *tick*, and a few seconds later, comes back on. And then a
few minutes, off again, just sat in BIOS.
I power off from the switch at the back, wait 5 minutes, power back on;
lights blink for a second, then off with a *tick*, and a few seconds
later, back on, and all is well again.
Only thing of note is that 12v seems to be sagging slightly; 11.7v.
I'll try a molex -> ATX 4 pin adaptor and see if that helps. Hopefully
4 pins are easier to drive than 8.
One other thing I have noticed is my IRC sessions have twice dropped at
about the exact same time as the power drops out. The cable modem isn't
dying; the ethernet link to it isn't flapping, but I ping out. No idea
if it's related, or if maybe this is just a symptom of having crappy
power generally, and my other systems have just handled it better.
*sigh*
--
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
http://hur.st/
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