[Gllug] Old disk in new machine *just worked*

[Paul Rayner]

On 16 Mar 2006, at 00:31, Nix wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Paul Rayner gibbered uncontrollably:

Guilty as charged.

>> [*1] It kept rebooting at intervals of 10sec-15mins, replaced the
>> power supply - same problem, unhooked the reset button, still same
>> problem
>
> I've seen thermal problems on AMD boxes cause this; the machine does an
> emergency thermal shutdown (or just misbehaves due to the heat, panics,
> and autoreboots :) ), and cools down just enough while POST runs that
> a short time might pass before it reboots again. Do something else
> CPU-intensive, and whammo, another reboot.

Thermal problems are a possibility, although it was a P4 Celeron, and 
the CPU fan was spinning freely. TBH, after making sure the power 
supply was OK by running it from a UPS and seeing it still reboot, 
having changed the PSU, and eliminated a dodgy reset switch I gave up 
because there was an unused PC on the other side of the room, and the 
broken one is probably 3 years old.

If I'd have known that getting the replacement PC up and running was 
going to be as easy as shoving a disk in it and turning it on, I 
wouldn't have bothered with the half hour round trip to get a new power 
supply.

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