It's a pity that some $400 thin clients don't come with a decent builtin power supply. Those tiny external ones just aren't designed to cope with a couple of hundred watts. Moreover, don't overdo the watts! Chances are that your mobo wasn't designed to handle that much current. Which is probably why the manufacturer recommends a 40W PS in the first place. ;-)
On 31-Jan-03 Baeseman, Cliff wrote: > I have done some testing and the via epia runs at 22W once it is > up for > about 30 seconds. > The 22W figure is a EPIA with a drive in it. On a compact flash > device this > drops to around > 17W. It will draw very close to 40W with a drive in it during spin > up. I > would assume it may > take even more than that during the start spike. > > > Cliff > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Trider > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 1/31/03 2:18 PM > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: EPIA problems > > Hello ltsp-discuss-request, > > Friday, January 31, 2003, 5:21:06 AM, you wrote: > > > ldrlsn> But if the powersupply is too small, shouldn't the problem > occur > all the > ldrlsn> time? The two out of three times the boot completes, the > terminal runs > ldrlsn> fine. And the powersupply doesn't get very hot, so the 40W > supply seems > ldrlsn> "big" enough. Unless it needs more current at power-on? > > My theory: > > Power supplies can cause intermittent problems.. and yes, more > power > current is needed at power-on as there is a spike in power as > everything loads. > > My main computer doesn't have a large enough power supply to > accommodate my two CD-ROMS drives, two hard drives, video card, > sound > card, modem, NIC, tv tuner, and SCSI card.. it crashes randomly > during BIOS POST the first time.. if I hit the reset button it > works; > the drives have spun up, everything is already running, so there > is > consistent current. > > So yeah, I'd say stick a bigger supply in to test it.. > > --- > Ian Trider [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 34119829 AIM: iantri1 Y!: iantri1 > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------- Wouter DeBacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 03-Feb-03 22:29:57 (SuSE Linux Xfmail) -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
