[plug] server keeps dropping out

[Jon Miller]

Turned out to be the motherboard capacitor that had a leakage in them. Another motherboard from ASUS with those cheap capacitor.

Jon

Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS, ASE
Director/Sr Systems Consultant
MMT Networks Pty Ltd
http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
 is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby



>>> mark at musicalstoat.co.uk 11:56:49 am 25/03/2004 >>>

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Craig Ringer wrote:
>
> > If so then it may well be the NICs that are giving you woes.
>
> I didn't notice that, but now that you point it out I'd have to agree.
> I've never had much luck with the FA310TX (whatever variant I have; they
> seem to reuse the model number while changing chips) and actually prefer
> RealTek over them.
>
Well, cards using the RealTek 8139 are the ones that I've seen do this
more than any other.  But I  suspect that more work has gone into the
drivers for these, they seem to use the software to work around the fact
that (as I recall) these chips try to fit square frames into round holes.

Regards,
-- 
Mark O'Shea
_______________________________________________
PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.linux.org.au
http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug
Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.plug.org.au/pipermail/plug/attachments/20040331/5accea67/attachment.htm>