From: Walter,
Gentlemen, thanks for your comments on the power supply problem.
I did get to Rapidpcs at Christchurch, and as usual they were exceedingly
helpful. I had a session with Rob, he tested my PS and thought it was ok but
the fan still stopped after a couple of seconds.
So I picked up a new supply, (sale or return!) which ran on my bench OK, the fan did continue to spin. I got it installed and lo and behold the same thing again, wow!.
I reseated all the plug ins and cleaned out the dusty fans. One of the comments
I received was to reset the cmos by removing the battery which I did and I got
into the default bios and after a struggle I managed to boot the OS. I wonder
if this was the original problem? I dare say but the new PS is a good feature
for extended life of this system.
Have just found out that booting to the 'safe mode' also requires passwords.
After Googling and downloading software, I have deleted the passwords and got the authorisation code too so maybe I can make a system disk if the board breaks down sometime.
My goal would be to run W7 in a virtual machine inside Ubuntu and that may be a
safer and easier than a dual boot, so I'll work on that.
From: Mark Elkins>>
Yes it should be running all the time. Fans are a common cause of problems.
Probably a? heavy build up of dust - so try cleaning this off/out with say
cotton buds and vacuum cleaner.
If a PSU fails on a desktop computer its not much of deal as not costly ....<<
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Walter
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