Hugo Mills wrote:
> 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?
This is no help whatsoever, but I suffered a spookily similar experience
with my father-in-law's mobo yesterday. Been okay for several boots,
then won't post (and no error codes) although the cpu fan will spin up
under power. It's currently waiting to go back to eBuyer.
So, you're no further forward, but you're not alone either it seems.
:o(
Sean
