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Re: error

• Posted by rforno at tutopia.com Aug 12, 2001
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Kat:
Sometimes I have noticed a power drop lasting perhaps 1/10th of a second in
the room lights, that did not affect the PC. This is much more than your
1/120th of a second. This is because the AC power is rectified and
stabilized in the power source inside the computer, where there is a
capacitor that can hold the low-level voltage for a fraction of a second.
But if the outside voltage is a bit low, when it drops more for let's say
one or two seconds, it may cause the PC to reset.
----- Original Message -----
From: <gertie at ad-tek.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: RE: error


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> On 11 Aug 2001, at 19:04, Bernie Ryan wrote:
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> > mwfch at MWEB.CO.ZA wrote:
> > > I know that this is an oftoppic but I need help . After a short time
my
> > > computer just restarts . Then it gives these long beeps . What is it ?
> > > Thanks to this I have lost a lot of code . Please help .
> > >
> > > FG
> > >
> > >
> >   Its sounds like you are have a problem with bad memory.
> >   One of the memory dim/sim boards may be loose or going bad.
> >
> >   The other possibilty is that your power supply is going bad
> >   or something in the system is loaded down the power supply voltages
> >   intermittently.
>
> If the power drops off for one cycle, 1/120th of a second, the puter can
get massive
> heart failure, and may reboot, or lock up. Designing power suplies with no
margin
> makes them lighter, cheaper, and more efficient, so it also means
everything else
> must be better,,, and the power company is the weakest link, followed by
flakey outlet
> strips. Get a small UPS, with 10 minutes of puter + monitor power, and
plug the puter
> into it, not an outlet strip. My UPS beeps at least once a day, usually
several times a
> day. Each beep is at least a micro power outage, and would have wiped the
puter if the
> UPS had not caught it. I had given up on using ibm-clone puters while i
still had the
> C64, because i could run the C64 on batteries, while the power co kept
killing the big
> puter.
>
> A bad program writing outside allotted memory will also reboot the puter.
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> Kat
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