The system is up and running fine now! I can't find any sign of a full root partition. The PSU has been under suspicion for some months. A technician said he could hear noise from it but I couldn't hear it. (I hear funny noises too but the doctor says if I take my meds everything will be ok!)
Evcn if it is a faulty capacitor, rather than a bad PSU, the PC will need attention from a technician. I guess I'll be paying a visit to Memory Express. Thanks for the help. Robin On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Cody Swanson <[email protected]> wrote: > My 2 cents, > C > Visually inspect the mainboard, if there are no swollen or leaking > capacitors then replace the PSU. > > Richard Carter wrote: > >> Hi Szemir, >> >> Thanks for your reply. Perhaps "shutdown" is not the right word. What >> happens is not "graceful"! >> The screen goes black and the PC just dies! >> Robin >> >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:39 AM, bogi <[email protected] <mailto: >> [email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I think you may have a full / <<root partition or a full /home >> partition. I >> don't think a faulty psu would result in a graceful shutdown. A psu >> taking >> the power-good signal away might result in a graceful shutdown, but >> not in >> case power is really not good :-) >> Also a shorted out / stuck reset button can result in a graceful >> shutdown. >> Knowing your system i would go for the full partition option first. >> Cheers >> Szemir >> >> On Wednesday 08 July 2009 09:00:23 Richard Carter wrote: >> > Hi Folks, >> > >> > This morning my desk top PC (amd64, Debian 5.0) began spontaneously >> > shutting down. This happens at various times: part way through >> booting, >> > while in kde, during back up. I suspect the power supply has >> failed. Does >> > this sound right? >> > >> > Robin Carter >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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