[ale] load issue (conclusion)

[David Corbin]

On Thursday 29 June 2006 04:30 am, David Corbin wrote:
> On Sunday 25 June 2006 10:01 am, David Corbin wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 June 2006 09:43 am, David Corbin wrote:
> > I've still not yet begun check with a "safe" ps.  I rebooted into single
> > user mode, and I'm letting my raid drive rebuild itself (should finish
> > shortly, I think).
> >
> > But, I've noticed a lot of "lost interrupt" messages for the both drives,
> > and there were some error messages (exact text not available).  I also
> > remember messages of the form "ide0: reset success".
> >
> > Given that this system has worked fine for sometime, I'm wondering if
> > I've got a motherboard/IDE controller failure.
>
> Well, I think I found the problem.  The power supply.  By Monday, the
> system was off, and wouldn't boot.  Oddly, if I left it off for "a while",
> the fans and drives would spin up for a few seconds when attemptin to turn
> on.  I swapped a working PS from another system, and *everything* seems a
> better. LA is a bit high right now (1-2), but I assume that's because of
> the raid rebuilding itself.

I also meant to metion that its the first time I've seen a power supply fail 
in a non-boolean way. :)

>
> Thanks for the help everyone.
>
> David
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