Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3572 mails)

["John Andersen" <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  I happen to have a spare 3kw UPS - not sure if it'll last 10mins, but it
>  might.  What would such a test this show, John?

Because Most UBS devices provide and excellent filter, any stability
gained while running on one may indicate really crappy power (mains)
which your machine may be very sensitive to.


Also, switch to Console 10 and just watch it while your machine is
working hard.  You might see some messages come shooting thru
when something triggers a protective shutdown.

You can make some settings to eliminate overly protective
shutdown sequences, some in KDE, and some in BIOS.

(Oh, check the manufacturer to see if there is later bios available).

I had a machine that would just Power Down after flashing some
nonesense in the log about Extreme temperature protective shutdown
and it would power off so fast you couldn't do anything.

I finally traced it to One of the utilities in opensuse and simply
did not run that thing, (I think it might have been one of the earlier
incantations of kpowermanagment or kpowersave or some such.

I had another machine delivered from Dell a couple years ago with bios
settings so tight that it would shutdown on a warm day.  That machine
did it all in bios.

Anyway, if you have satisfied yourself by watching the console 10 that
there are no real damaging temps occurring, then you just need to find
if there is errant software at play here.






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