I had a similar problem with a shorted parallel printer cable and another time with a fried network card. Basically, anything that shorts the 5 volt supply to ground will stop the processor from doing anything. Grant M.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Kevin Sullivan > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Re: OT: Linux experiment > > > Bob Rogers writes: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:06:58 -0500 > > > > It is with deep sorrow and much lighter > > pockets that I regret to inform you > > that my dual boot windows/linux PC > > has passed away. > > > > Whatever was causing Linux to lock up > > has progressed to the point where the > > BIOS won't even run now, no ram check, > > no keyboard beeps, no harddrive chatter, > > nothing. > > > > It passed quietly in its sleep. It worked > > one day, and then a couple days later, > > it simply wouldn't turn on . . . > > > > You know, this sounds kinda like a power supply problem. Last summer, I > > had what I thought was a flaky hard drive, until it failed hard enough > > that I had to add another disk in order to have something to boot from > > so I could repair the root partition, and then it would not even power > > up (gory details at http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/linux/disk-upgrade.html#ps). > > The system has worked without a hitch since replacing the PS. > > > > If that's not it, then rest assured that you have my deepest sympathy > > in your time of loss. > > > > I had a similar issue last summer. It turned out to be the AGP slot > had been fried and the mobo somehow caused the power supply to > disfunction. This was all caused by running a: > GeForce4 Ti4200 128MB DDR AGP > with a misconfigured slot. Ran fine for about a month and then.... > > The new motherboard Asus A7V8X will not powerup with the same > configuration. It has a red led to indicate power mismatches on the > AGP slot. > > Kevin Sullivan > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
