Abhishake's dead system

[christoph at linuxsoup.com]

Has this system been to China recently?
Sounds a lot like SARS...



David Kramer wrote:
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> 
> On Friday 11 April 2003 04:01 pm, Abhishake Pathak wrote:
> > I had a hardware question if that is ok.  One of my
> > machines kept restarting and eventually stopped
> > working which i was not there to notice.  My first
> > guess was that it was the cpu as the cpu fan was not
> > running.
> 
> Do you mean at this point the system was working (between spontaneois 
> reboots)?  This is important.
> 
> > that seems to be fine as well.  the only thing left is
> > the motherboard.  my processor fan and another fan
> > attached to the motherboard do not seem to be getting
> > any power.  nothing shows up on the monitor when i
> > turn on the power.  and at the other end of the
> > motherboard a green led lights up when powered up.
> > i'm inclined to say that it is the motherboard but i
> > cannot confirm that for sure.  can someone please
> > point me in the right direction as to what i could do?
> 
> OK, now we're getting somehere.  There's one problem in figuring out what's 
> wrong, though.
> 
> Some of the wires going between the power supply and the motherboard are used
>  
> for the motherboard to tell the power supply whether the motherboard is happy
>  
> with itself and the power coming out of the power supply.  If the power 
> supply puts out undervoltage, overvoltage, fluctuations, etc, the motherboard
>  
> will tell the power supply to shut down.  The motherboard will also do this 
> if it senses a problem on the motherboard, CPU, and sometimes memory.  The 
> purpose of all this is to ensure that no more damage occurs.
> 
> As a result of this, the symptoms you are seeing could be caused by either th
> e 
> power supply or something on the motherboard.  You can't really tell without 
> swapping one.  However, the green light on the motherboard leads me to 
> believe that the power supply is at least working somewhat.  If the problem 
> were the RAM or video, the motherboard would usually beep one of several 
> special patterns.  Is the speaker hooked up to the motherboard?
> 
> If you can, bring the computer to the installfest tomorrow.
> 
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