[ale] Server PS shuts off for no reason

[Jeff Hubbs]

I really don't have another PS to put in its place (it's a low-profile
job with a fan in a particular place, so I doubt I could buy a
replacement easily and cheaply).  I'm pretty sure that it's not because
of anything I've done on the OS side (including a Xen host kernel and
lm_sensors) because last night it switched off while booted to a Ubuntu
CD.  Right now, it has been up 12 hours on a Gentoo LiveCD, but that
doesn't mean much - it went for 24 just a day or so ago. 

I've got a message in to SuperMicro - we'll see if I wind up just RMAing
the whole thing.

- Jeff

Benjie wrote:
> This sounds like either a bad power supply, or a bad power control
> circuit on the mainboard.
> ( It could be something as simple as a bad capacitor.)  Can you hook
> up another power supply?  ( The power LED would stay on even if the PS
> is bad because you would be getting some power, just not enough to run
> the machine.)
>
> Benjie
>
> On 11/18/06, Gonzalo Seoane <gonzas at gonzas.net> wrote:
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>> this is a hardware failure .
>> check again ,..
>>
>> 2006/11/18, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net>:
>>     
>>> I have a SuperMicro 5013C-T 1U server that I've been setting up over
>>> many weeks and just recently, it's started shutting itself off after a
>>> period of seconds (i.e., not even long enough to finish booting),
>>> minutes, or even many hours.  The interesting thing about this is that
>>> the power LED on the front panel remains on.
>>>
>>> Are there any non-hardware-failure things I should check?  I can't
>>> correlate these shutoffs to any one thing I might have done, especially
>>> since I've been doing a great many things (none of which have been
>>> knowingly tied to any sort of wake-on-lan, etc.).
>>>
>>> I've updated the BIOS and tried booting with pci=noacpi; no joy.
>>>
>>> - Jeff
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