Re: 2.6.8-rc2 crash(s)?

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 08:59:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> This message is now a bit old, William. 
> I was watching the psu voltages via gkrellm, and was seeing the 5 volt 
> line go from 4.89, down to 4.73 in consecutive readings.  The new 420 
> watt Antec, seems to be steadier at 4.87 +- 0.03 or so.
> I suspect the tap point for the xx83627 chips input may not be right 
> at the psu connector on the mobo cause I suspect the supply itself is 
> probably doing 5.05 or so, although I haven't dropped my DVM on the 
> line to test, its rather buried behind the drive cage.  But lemme go 
> hit a drive power connector since there are spares on this psu, brb.  
> Yeah, at a drive cables middle connector, with a small load on the 
> end, its sitting at 5.00 volts, solid as a rock.  This supply has 
> seperate regulators for the 5 volt, and 3.3 volt lines where the 
> older one regulated everything against the 5 volt by turns ratios on 
> the transformer, and was only a 300 watter, with 2 hd's, 2 floppy's 
> and a dvd writer in addition to the motherboard load.
> Anything else a C.E.T. can get for you?

The question is really whether all this is actually causing observable
kernel/cpu/device failures.


-- wli