[Hampshire] [OT] [hardware] Dead machine?

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: [Hampshire] [OT] [hardware] Dead machine?

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I've got a (nearly) new mini-ITX motherboard, made by Jetway, for
my media box. It seems to be having some trouble:

On Saturday morning, the machine crashed. Nothing appeared in the
logs. On trying to restart it on Saturday night, the machine wouldn't
come back up at all (no POST), but the case fan started when the
machine was plugged in (which it normally wouldn't do). After
unplugging everything from the back of the box and reapplying power,
it finally came back and booted without a problem.

This morning, it did the same thing, and so far hasn't come back,
despite being unplugged from everything for some time. The only thing
that seems to be "working" is the case fan -- which is permanently on
when the machine has power.

I'll be speaking to the vendor tomorrow about this, but has anyone
else seen this sort of behaviour? Is the motherboard completely
shagged? If so, why did it run fine for 12 hours or so last night
after its first failure?

Hugo.

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