Dan([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.09.27 20:04:40 +0000: > > ya but even putting the old nic back in the machine does not still boot > up. I don't think this has to do with the nic but you never know. > fxp1: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet>
questions of the pragmatic field-engineer: "did it produce any smoke?" "did it stink?" "does it still stink, even if it's turned off?" q3 if answered with yes means that the electret condenser are gone. had this with a whole series of korean 300va atx power supplies. you don't happen to have those nice nvidia or voodoo agp4x cards in there, don't you? if yes -> kick'em out, they don't do any good in servers. rageiic or other agp1x cards <$20 have proven to be the best choice for me. good luck, /k > > > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:38:55 -0700 > > From: Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: power supplies > > > > > > > > Dan wrote: > > > > > > I had the stangest situation today where a new nic card was put into a > > > machine and then the machine did not start up. Placed the old nic card > > > back in the box and it still did not start up. Switched power supplies > > > with an exactly equal box and both machine booted up fine. This has > > > happened twice since we started replacing nic cards today with ones with > > > more buffer space available on them out of about 8 machines now. > > > > > > Does this make any sense to anyone? > > > > There are problems with PSes when you use NICs with wake up > > capability. The NIC may exceed the capability of one of your low > > amperage voltages. > > > > Kent > > > > > > > > -- > > > Dan > > > > > > +------------------------------------------------------+ > > > | BRAVENET WEB SERVICES | > > > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > > > | screen;cd /usr/src;make buildworld;cd ~ | > > > | cp MYKERNEL /sys/i386/conf;cd /usr/src | > > > | make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL | > > > |make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL;make installworld| > > > +______________________________________________________+ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > > > -- > > Kent Stewart > > Richland, WA > > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html > > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- > Yes, it is inconvenient. Security and convenience are usually mutually > exclusive concepts. --Erik Trulsson on freebsd-stable, Jun 2001 KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.net/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 10x
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