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| Thread ID: 119922 | 2011-08-17 01:18:00 | Random crashes after system upgrade. | jackie.t (16504) | Press F1 |
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| 1223876 | 2011-08-23 11:47:00 | The one I have it in is only a very low spec file server, mainly used for backups, so hardly any stress on it from day to day. 99% of the time its :sleep then around 8-9pm it gets a poke from a couple of PC's that dump backups on it. Oh - and it streams music sometimes to other PC's on the LAN. Its a real grunter :lol: 512MB RAM, celeron (something or other) Socket 478, running an altered Ubuntu (had XP Originally) :banana |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1223877 | 2011-08-23 11:56:00 | Well that does makes sense, with a low load the PSU wouldn't have been stressed too much, and would last longer, and of course a PSU with potentially failed capacitors and a low load won't output the ton of ripple one with a high\full load would, so stability issues may never arise. However I sure as heck wouldn't trust any backups to a machine with a 7-year-old Hyena... I hope you're not running IBM Deskstars in it as well :devil |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1223878 | 2011-08-23 12:58:00 | I'm with you there WT, 2 weeks ago I just replaced a Win 2000 Server built in 2004. It has a Hyena 300W PSU, about a P4 2.2GHz 1G ram I think. It never missed a beat, ran 24/7, only time it went down was to replace the HDD's about 3 years ago and I took it down to the companies workshop to blow the dust out of it once. Fan bearings are getting pretty noisy, but it still worked fine til I turned it off. It is now retired as a spare, I doubt the new server will be as reliable. | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1223879 | 2011-08-23 20:56:00 | No Agent, No IBM's. The one that has the Hyena is a backup to/for the backups. I have various backups spread over several places, and they all are backed up / copied to that one computer (two copies in total) so if one does go bang its no great lose. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1223880 | 2011-08-23 21:41:00 | No Agent, No IBM's. The one that has the Hyena is a backup to/for the backups. I have various backups spread over several places, and they all are backed up / copied to that one computer (two copies in total) so if one does go bang its no great lose. The IBM thing was a joke ;) I wouldn't expect you of all people to entrust your backups to only one machine. But as you stated in a previous post: The Hyena PSU's are not exactly very good ( I'm being polite :) ) That should be changed first, being that age, I would suspect its already failing or working on it anyway. I don't know why you'd say that and then say you've used one in a server for 7 years... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1223881 | 2011-08-23 22:43:00 | So what did he do for 2 hrs besides install the hdd? I wouldnt pay anything else till he fixes it (for what you've paid already) Installing OS? |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1223882 | 2011-08-23 22:51:00 | And? That wont take 2 hrs | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1223883 | 2011-08-23 23:26:00 | The IBM thing was a joke ;) I wouldn't expect you of all people to entrust your backups to only one machine . But as you stated in a previous post: I don't know why you'd say that and then say you've used one in a server for 7 years . . . As I pointd out before, it was a temp thing, but never got around to changing it to a better one . Never given any problems in the whole time, so why fix something if its not causing a problem . When it does I'll deal to it then . That also goes back to what I said earlier -- to many techs change things that dont need changing just because they dont like a brand etc . There are millions of everyday PC's around the world running with those PSU's, and no problems . Some people go a little overboard on bad caps,Name brands or other faults that simply dont exist in every device . Certain people dont like Acers -- guess what over the last 3 years have been the most failed laptops I have seen ---- Toshiba's -- got 2 here at the moment, hardware failures, less than two years old ;) Back to my original comment yesterday, If the PSU get s replaced and the fault continues -- then what is the problem ?? Seen it a few times what a person thinks is the fault actually isn't . I was simply pointing out that while some here are saying it "IS" the PSU causing the problem, and jackie . t buys a new one which clearly is not in the budget, and it doesn't fix the problem, would those people go "oh my mistake, I'll refund the money" -- yeah right . A good tech / repair place would change the PSU with a "loner", and if the problem is solved then a new one can be purchased . |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1223884 | 2011-08-23 23:35:00 | Installing OS? Agree, easily take 2 hours with XP, 45 minutes to install, then theres the drivers if they need to be downloaded, windows updated,programs & data put back easily takes 3-4 hours. (or more) | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1223885 | 2011-08-23 23:45:00 | I used to play a fair lot of games on my old HP desktop, which was running a 478 2.2ghz p4, 1.5gb ram and a geforce fx5500, all on a 250 watt no name (or rather, name that sounds like a good brand but isn't) psu. It's been going since about 2003. Doesn't get used so much now, but still is used for stepmania and videos sometimes. |
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