On 10/03/2011 05:37 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > 3. uses a high efficiency low-noise PSU, which does not like power ups > at all (in fact restarting the computer now takes a dozen tries, with > minutes waiting for caps to drain ; yes I could change the hardware but > it works fine under load and a new PSU is how many years of energy > savings again ?). If your PS has trouble starting because of faulty caps, it's probably not because they are draining---on the contrary, they are probably worn out and leaky (electrically), causing trouble for the startup circuit which wasn't designed for the extra losses. Often you can identify the failing electrical capacitors because their casing is swollen or maybe even burst open and leaking the actual electrolyte. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague You'd have to disassemble the power supply to see that, however, and there are possibly dangerous voltages inside even for some time after disconnecting the power, so I don't recommend doing that. The bottom line is that the power supply is probably on the fritz and likely to fail altogether. Decent power supplies aren't that expensive, I recently got a nice, quiet one for around $30-40. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
