-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brandon Carl wrote:
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Just to add a little here. I had a system that was running with no problems for a long time. Then I started getting odd failures... like drives dropping off.... strange behaviour I couldn't pinpoint. Turned out it was a power supply problem. Replaced the PSU and things are back to normal. While your problem may not be PSU related, don't discount a PSU issue simply because it has been working fine for a long time. PSUs do fail, and not always catastrophically.. sometimes they just begin to fade away.. no longer delivering the full rated power.
Is there any way I would be able to tell that this is the problem without having to just test out a new PSU to see if it works?
Definitely. Heat is an issue. Something as simple as a collection of dustbunnies on your heat sinks and fan blades can dramatically reduce the cooling efficiency of your computer - especially if your cooling situation is already less than optimal. Make sure that it is all clean inside....
I'll clean it out and see if it helps.
Start up sensors and monitor things for a while. You can either run it from the command line or if you have a GUI, you can use gtkrellm or Superkaramba to put a realtime monitor on the desktop.
I have System Monitor and xosview running, but they don't really tell me much. Is there a monitor for temperature?
Had a machine with similar problems. Turned out in the end to be due in part to a hard drive that was experiencing some data failure, and possibly (the juries out on this) a failed tape unit. (As it is possible the data corruption issues on the drive was causing problems on with the tape unit). BTW I still have the drive on the system and it is still mounted as a data drive for data recovery purposes but now it is no longer under load I have experienced no problems. I would load S.M.A.R.T and use it to monitor the status of the drives. A problem may not show up immediately but you have a good chance of getting something meaningful reported eventually (it took two months in my case). (There are other tools which monitor the status of processors etc but what is available varies according to chipsets). I would hope that your machine is suitably protected against power oddities. Faulty PSUs are rather difficult to diagnose, especially if the problem is intermittent. Heat related problems tend to go away only when the device has cooled down and typically it may be some time before the devices restarts sanely. (You can also get a lot of very strange behaviour just before a heat related shutdown). - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGxqxTasN0sSnLmgIRAiwNAJ49/lFSezUcljNKDPGGeesXyGFnnwCgnXS3 sm0R2hDWeeFfcijsDyEI2Ew= =1hMw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org