I cant see a PSU deciding to smoke having to much relevance to the OS used to be honest...basically it just shouldn't smoke if its OK.
To be honest I smell a rat here it could be Linux is activating something on the motherboard thats faulty that win2000 isn't thus stuffing up your PSU... without a meter and CRO I can't say with 100% surety . Also check earthing and make sure the output of the PSU is correct with a multimeter. Also beware with PSU's you DO get what you pay for Ive seen some pretty pathetic examples of 300/400w PSU's running around with caps and regulators really pushing the limit of their design. If its an OEM PSU beware there are examples running around that have the wrong pinouts on the connectors for some motherboards (bloody morons). On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 22:12, Simon wrote: > This may seem crazy but my adventures this month just seems so. I replaced > my motherboard [1] to which it decided to crash regularly. Thus I went to > investigate a possible cause: bad sectors [2], in which I managed to kill > 30GB of useful data. > > The crashes are still occuring, and *ONLY* in Linux. My dusty ECI Client > only using Windows 2000 partition has survived, which is now assisting me > PuTTying. Prior applying a drastic weight plan on my hard drive my system > regularly locked up and crash on Linux (post new motherboard). Although > that partition is flattend, I still jump into knoppix (and variants) and > experince lock ups. > > I was just using Knoppix to use my TV Card, and it decided to lock up, I > left it locked and ran to the TV to finish whatever I was watching. Came > back my system off and wouldn't power on... on closer inspection, a nice > smell from the PSU. I think PSU's have a timer to allow power after a > certain time as I am using it now. > > Now is it my motherboard not being nice to my existing PSU, or does the > PSU need to leave. The PSU is 5 months old (300W). A decision I have to > make tomorrow as I visit the local PC shop. > > [1] http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/03/msg00171.html > [2] http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/03/msg00200.html > > -- > Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Let them hate, so long as they fear" -- GPLG GPLGPLGP GPLGPLGPLGP GPLGP GPL MICROSOFT GPLGP GPLGPLGPLGP GPLGPLGPL GPLGPL Richard Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
