[mythtv-users] lost my battery

Calvin Harrigan charriglists at bellsouth.net
Mon Apr 5 18:32:15 UTC 2010


Or
4. you are not drawing enough current to keep the powersupply running.

It takes a minimum current draw for most switching ATX power supplies to 
stay on.  I recommend connecting at least an old hard drive.


On 4/5/2010 2:26 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>> I have made some test with PSU only connected to 2 fans. Starts 1 sec, then
>> stop, like if it trips.
>
> The power supply will do this under 3 conditions.
> 1) There is a short circuit
>
> 2) The power supply is overloaded (too much power is being drawn) for
> the load on any of the rails (+5V, +12V ...)
>
> 3) The power supply is bad.
>
> John
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