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Re: Getting Started



>Well, we verified the 10% voltage drop using the hardware monitor of the
>setup (first time we use the VGA console in a while), so the CPU was idle
>then. If you keep it idle it won't hang, only if you load it with an
>intensive (99% CPU) job. It also only really heats up in such conditions,
>so the load on the power supply is only high when the CPU is loaded. I
>guess that the voltages drop even more when you load the node, hence the
>hang. But it must be said that we didn't really measure that.
>
>							Cheers,
>

This is potentially very bad news, and may explain those new MoBos where
you can plug an additional 5 volts directly into the MoBo... have you tried
lm-sensors under linux?



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