[Wolves] a strange hardware problem

[Philip Harper]

hi

I have a really bizzare hardware problem.

I have an old TIME machine (TIME as in computer brand, not as in i'm a 
time lord with an outdated TARDIS!), with an AMD processor.

Anyway, I have tried installing various operating systems on it 
(windoze, variuous flavours of linux) and it's find up until a certain 
point, and then for no apparent reason the machine seems to go into 
sleep mode (monitor sleeps, and machine has to be physically powered off).

I've done the obvious and checked the power management settings in the 
BIOS, and even tried turning them off completely.

I also thought maybe it was because of the extra hard drive I added, 
taking more power than was available, so I removed it, and also tidied 
up the cables in the case just in case the cluttered case was causing 
the system to overheat, still no luck.

I've noticed that although the hard drive seems to be working, as I hear 
it seeming to function normally, the drive activity light on the front 
of the case is not flickering as it used to when I only had the one hard 
drive working.

I'm lost on this one?