Re: One more 3c905 problem :(
Bogdan Costescu <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, David Nordenberg wrote: > The maching now has a 200W powersupply and that might be to small but should > the card really need so much more power in 100mbit state? At higher speeds, the interrupt rate increases, so the whole system might consume more power. One possility is to try to remove all unnecessary components (like CDROM drives, harddisks, etc.) from the configuration. > I also tried to make the card work hard with a ping -f at 100mbit and > then felt if it was getting hot I've also tried something similar some time ago when we were trying to see what are the heat sources in our computers that were randomly crashing and the 3Com NICs were never hot. > at both times it hung, the card was almost idle, around 50kb total > traffic/min. Well, this doesn't tell much to me. Systems in marginal conditions are quite impredictible. > Next time is hungs I try to put in a 250W PSU I think this alone without any fan might do it. -- Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex