Yes. Remembering also that even a good power supply running too long on
a below-normal voltage source can be damaged by that over time.
Also keep in mind the mortal enemy of all computers and electronics:
heat. Over time, that bakes the life out of electronic components like
capacitors and power supplies.
Plus inserting and removing connections (such as PS cables, drive
cables, etc) and changing components (such as cards and memory) can
fatigue circuit boards around those points, eventually leading to failures.
I personally am always angry when electronics die. They're supposed to
last forever! ;)
On 4/9/19 9:52 PM, Sami Jumppanen wrote:
For dying computer owners: before upgrading anything, use a known good
PSU. I just lost a week worth of late nights trying to set up a new
computer. I deducted that it was the PSU on the nearly functional
computer that had caused CPU failure, by having something else than DC
voltage. On the average the voltages were a bit low, but contained AC
spiking.
That CPU didn't work with decent PSU (normal voltage levels) anymore, on
any board I tried - the other boards didn't even boot into BIOS. I had
three PSUs to test and always it was the old one that made the old board
work so well that I could install Ubuntu Studio and upgrade it even
once, but then I got jams and interrupted HDD writes.
I postponed indefinitely testing the other boards with another CPU
because I had an older computer that had no problems - and still runs fine.
PSUs are dangerous! :)
ke 10. huhtik. 2019 klo 9.33 david (gn...@hawaii.rr.com
<mailto:gn...@hawaii.rr.com>) kirjoitti:
On 4/8/19 10:37 PM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> I haven't tested the timing thing either. My computer keeps
freezing.
> When I reboot it, I'm stuck at 1024x768, and the only way I have
managed
> to make progress on that issue is to reinstall Kubuntu. I've been
> around that bush three times now, and I have grown tired of the
> aggravation. This machine is rather old, and I suspect the
hardware is
> just flaking out.
My main desktop/server, also rather old, finally died. The onboard
video
went first. Then the machine just quit coming up at all.
The backup desktop/server still works. It's "newer" than the dead main
one, but has some peculiarities. For example, the BIOS doesn't
recognize
the presence of a keyboard unless it's plugged into the PS/2 port. Once
Linux comes up, it works just fine with my USB keyboard, so it's not a
problem with the keyboard.
Hoping to replace the guts with a Ryzen 7 motherboard. Could use the
speed for other things I do.
> Either that, or Kubuntu 18.04 is less stable than its
> many predecessors, which I find difficult to imagine. Still, the
> trouble started when I upgraded from 16.04, so that may be the
culprit.
> So many things have changed it's more trouble than it's worth to
me to
> try to keep track of any of it.
Well, in my experience, upgrading from Ubuntu 16 to Kubuntu 18 was a
big
hairy problem. For instance, after upgrade and restart, no working
network. I reinstalled fresh.
> I had gotten in the habit of just buying a retail desktop PC off the
> shelf, but you can't buy those anymore. Getting Linux onto a retail
> Windows PC is a huge pain in the ass anyway.
In my experience, only if you want to keep Windows around.
> I guess I have to go
> figure out what components to buy and roll my own like it's
1995. I am
> not looking forward to this at all.
Well, putting Linux on my wife's retail laptop PC that came with
Windows
on it worked just fine. Dell, Lenovo, HP apparently work. Only
ointment-infestation I can imagine might be support for fancy new
graphics cards?
At the moment, I like Asus motherboards. My wife's laptop and the mobo
in my backup desktop machine just work with Linux.
Since my present laptop experiences a few issues (doesn't think it
has a
battery, takes 3-5 minutes before the built-in display shows the POST
screen) due to having been dropped a few times, I'm thinking of jumping
to a Dell 15"/4K HDR display and Intel processor.
Looking for hardware that won't leave me crawling when I move to a
42mpixel camera and get to start making big panoramas.
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David W. Jones
gn...@hawaii.rr.com
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