Deedra Waters posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:44:40 -0600:
> Hrm, it doesn't look to be a heat issue. I opened the case and took a > look inside when i saw the last message,and it looks perfectly cool and > happy. > > I do notice however, that it's only happening when i hammer the raid > array, which is on a pci promise controler. That would appear to be the voltage issue I mentioned in my last post, that I was writing when you posted the above. Pretty good odds, I'd say. Also, since the RAID array would be powered directly off the power supply, not from the board, that points squarely at it. Replace it with a good one. Check ratings for the 12 volt rail hard drives usually use, in particular. Some of the higher end supplies actually have two electrically separate 12-volt rails, distributing the stress. However, you probably don't actually /need/ that feature, as long as the rating for the one is high enough to handle all those drives (plus additional accessories, CD/DVD burner, perhaps, and USB bus powered devices and the like). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
