Hi,
Have you looked in /var/log/messages to see if something went bang and left a suicide note?
Cheers,
Paul.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Stephen Rowles" <stephen@???>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:41:23
To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List<hampshire@???>
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] PC powers itself off after grub.. any ideas?
> On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 17:34 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Slightly OT, except for the fact that the machine is running Fedora 10.
>>
>> My machine powers on and boots into grub just fine, however as soon as I
>> select the kernel to boot the machine continues to a blinking cursor
>> before the whole machine simple shuts down.
>>
>> I'm wondering if it might be a faulty PSU?
>
> Depends. If you can leave it running at the Grub menu (which spins the
> CPU) indefinitely, then it's probably not a power problem. Does any
> other operating system work?
>
>> Any other suggestions? I'm going to try booting from my Fedora install
>> image on usb stick but I've never seen this sort of behavior before.
>>
>> It behaves the same regardless of which kernel I select so I don't think
>> it is related to any updates, typical to get a hardware failure on the
>> PC
>> that runs the telly during Wimbledon week!
>
> Try booting with acpi=off and see if this helps.
>
> James.
I'm 99% certain it is a PSU fault. With the machine plugged only into the
monitor and keyboard I can boot quite happily and run all the apps I like.
When I reconnect network, USB TV stick etc. etc. the machine only gets
part way through boot before losing power.
Temperatures are OK, having managed to boot it I was able to scan
/var/log/messages where I record CPU and HDD temperatures every hour
through a cron job. It shows it died for no good reason last night round
about 10:00pm with the temperatures looking just fine so I don't think it
is an overheat issue.
ebuyer have a good looking more powerful PSU for only £30 next day
delivery so I'll order that, has a nice 120mm fan so should be quieter
than my current one too, also has more power than the current 300 watt one
I'm running.
Normally I'd want to try more things but as this is our only way of
recording TV, and contains all our email archives, I want to get it up and
running again asap :)
Thanks for all your suggestions, I just hope this doesn't turn into a
piece by piece replacement of the whole box!
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