Re: AlphaServer 1200 powering off by itself.

Jack Estes wrote:
My gut tells me that you have a power supply with a faulty rectifier
circuit so when power requirements for I/O and the CPUs increase, the
voltage regulator overloads. Next on my list, you maybe have a

i think that was it (or maybe cleaning the power supply connectors). i even did a full system upgrade on the box (cvs new source and ports tree, buildworld, and portupgrade involving hours of compile time) and rebooted a couple of times. amazing! i think i'll disconnect the power supply connectors on "omega" and clean those too to see if that helps with the powering off upon reboot issue.
thanks again for all your insight.

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