[Scottish] Slightly OT: hardware problem

[Cameron Logie]

George,

In the past, I've had problems with machines (esp those with Athlons) that
were resolved by getting a new power supply.
I was getting big disk errors, random crashing and
motherboard-not-powering-up problems.

Did the new case that you bought have an PSU rated for an Athlon ?

Regards,
Cammy.

george said:
>
>  This is slightly OT I know so fogive me. I have a machine which was
> running win2K, and I had a a problem with it so I upgraded the machine a
>  bit, new case, graphics card and memory and reinstalled win2k, after
> the  reinstall it kept hanging. Then when I tried to reboot it came up
> with  an error message saying a file could not be found, and it
> caouldn't  start windows, so I reinstalled it again and it ran OK for a
> few days  and then the same message different file. I have swapped  the
> card and  removed the extra memory but the same problems.
>
> Anyway to the linux part. I put MD9 on it and it won't power down, the
> modem won't work everytime you reboot unless you go to the configuration
>  panel and redo the config, and generally it's running like a wounded
> rhino, the machine itself is a 1gig athlon with 1024 of ram.
>
>
> George
>
>
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