Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265600AbUAZXes (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:34:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265607AbUAZXes (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:34:48 -0500 Received: from host213-160-108-25.dsl.vispa.com ([213.160.108.25]:59273 "HELO cenedra.office") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265600AbUAZXem (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:34:42 -0500 From: Andrew Walrond To: Jamie Lokier , Tomas Ogren , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fried the onboard Broadcom 4401 network... Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 23:34:39 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040125024238.GA10424@ing.umu.se> <20040126094815.GA2060@ing.umu.se> <20040126123023.GA27087@mail.shareable.org> In-Reply-To: <20040126123023.GA27087@mail.shareable.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401262334.39975.andrew@walrond.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1033 Lines: 24 On Monday 26 Jan 2004 12:30 pm, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > I was startled when I bought a power meter to find that my computers > and even some monitors consume power when switched off. I don't mean > "soft" off - even with the mechanical switch in the off position they > still consume significant power. > > My AMD box consumes about 15W of power when the mechanical switch on > its power supply is off. About 35W when the mechanical switch is on > but the computer is in the "soft off" state (i.e. what you get when > you ask it to turn itself off). > I've got some dual xeon machines where the psu's get too hot to touch when switched _off_! Thankfully they run cool when switched on (and the fan is running) I've always assumed some sort of fault, but maybe not... Andrew Walrond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/