>Well, we verified the 10% voltage drop using the hardware monitor of the >setup (first time we use the VGA console in a while), so the CPU was idle >then. If you keep it idle it won't hang, only if you load it with an >intensive (99% CPU) job. It also only really heats up in such conditions, >so the load on the power supply is only high when the CPU is loaded. I >guess that the voltages drop even more when you load the node, hence the >hang. But it must be said that we didn't really measure that. > > Cheers, >
This is potentially very bad news, and may explain those new MoBos where you can plug an additional 5 volts directly into the MoBo... have you tried lm-sensors under linux?
