[Asterisk-Users] Ouch, part reset, quickly

[Michael George]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:31:15AM -0500, Michael George wrote:
> On December 3, 2004 1:04 pm, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> > On December 3, 2004 12:43 pm, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> > > Is it possible that your PSU isn't up to the task? If you aren't running
> > > a 400 or 500 watt PSU, I would be suspect of the PSU. That error message
> > > was attributed to not getting enough power before they put a power plug
> > > on the board itself. Now you know you aren't getting strangled by the
> > > PCI bus, but it still might not be enough power if you PSU isn't up to
> > > snuff to hold the power stable and high enough.
> > 
> > I fully believe that that error is incorrect.  I have been running into these 
> > problems on rev E, F and H cards on all manner of systems, from P90 with a 
> > 450W power supply to the Supermicro server chassis I hvae upstairs with 
> > triple-redundant power.  Hell I even put a 100MHz DSO on the +12V rail and 
> > there is nothing there, the voltage doesn't move more than a dozen or so mV 
> > from +12.00V.
> > 
> > For some it may be a power issue, but I believe there is either a power 
> > *distribution* issue on the TDM4XXP carrier, an electrical error on the FXS 
> > modules or even some kind of driver issue.
> 
> I just started getting this on my system.  I've been running it over a month
> in this system with few problem like this and now they are happening
> regularly...
> 
> Is there a list of possible remedies for it yet?  Anyone heard from Digium
> about the problem?

One suggestion I got from digium was to load the wcfxs module with the
lowpower=1 option:

modprobe wcfxs lowpower=1

I'll try it and see if it helps.

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