7 Jun
2005
7 Jun
'05
12:27 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 08:40:31AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings:
Interesting stuff. I'm learning more about mobos than I ever wanted to
know. :)
However: No brown goo on the caps, no bulging components, so I don't
think it's the capacitors. The fact that the machine is dying right at
the start seems to indicate that the problem may be either RAM or the
power supply. I'll check the RAM in another machine within a day or two,
if it's okay then I'll try switching out the power supply.
What a PITA.
Yep, hardware failures are no fun.
I'd guess the RAM too; I had a bad stick several years ago that
gave me gradually increasing kernel panics. Stupidly, I had no way
to back up everything at the time, only small documents to floppy,
and a forced reboot after one panic triggered a fsck on startup
during which the system crashed AGAIN rendering the disk unmountable.
That was fun I can tell you. I did eventually retrieve all my data
after replacing the RAM, but it took about two days of nonstop work.
since then I have set myself up with redundant hard drives,
occasional CD-RW and DVD-R backups, and journalling filesystems :-)
--
Paul Winkler
http://www.slinkp.com