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On Tue, 20 May 2003 14:31:51 -0400 (EDT) Duane Morin <dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com> wrote: > I just went up to my office to discover that my PC > was powered off. Odd, since I left it on. Power was > flowing to the power strip, and the other devices on > it including printer and monitor. Oddly the PC appeared > to still be getting power, as a green light on the front > of the case was glowing. > > I wiggled a few cables and noticed tat the green light > was out. Assuming I had just noticed it at the wrong angle, > I tried the power again, and the PC came on. Stayed on > long enough to fire up XP and let me log in, but a few > minutes after that, shut itself off again. Now I can't > get it to turn on. > > This is completely new behavior for me. Ideas? I'm > wondering, it's a hot day, could it just be overheating > and shutting itself down? And the first time I caught > it right when it had cooled off enough? > > Could my power supply be dying? > > Just to rule it out is there anything that could run > on a PC (i.e. virus) that could shut down my machine? It sounds like a power supply. I had a problem on my Linux desktop a year or so ago where my hard drives would power down. Eventually I tracked it down to power supply. The disks are fine. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20030520/699438ce/attachment.sig>
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