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

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Author: James Courtier-Dutton
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] [hardware] Dead machine?
On 19/11/06, Hugo Mills <hugo@???> 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?

>
>    Hugo.

>


Sounds like a faulty PSU to me.