[Gllug] Dead PC :-(

Ian Norton bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Mon Mar 7 11:06:50 UTC 2005


On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:52:26AM -0000, Wiehe, Simon wrote:
> My PC (ABIT NFS7-S, Athlon XP 3200+) has been working fine for ages, apart
> from a small hitch with temps a few months back sorted with some extra case
> cooling fans and a big heatsink. I went to bed last night leaving it
> processing some home video footage and when I got up this morning it was
> 'dead'. The Red LED on the motherboard that comes on when power is connected
> is still on but the power switch does nothing. The fans do not even spin up.
> 
> Can anyone make some suggestions to what the problem is. If it was PSU I would
> have thought the LED would be off as well, if it was CPU surely the fans would
> spin up.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks

If, for whatever reason, my desktop linux pc goes into 'standby' (such as me
doing apm -s in the belief i was ssh'd to my laptop) it is utterly impossible
to bring out of standby, I just have to remove the power and wait a few seconds
before i can power it on again,

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Ian Norton-Badrul

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