On Mon 29 Sep 2008 09:00:34 NZDT +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: > This is the problem. The original board works fine with the original > PSU. It's only the replacements that've been failing. Out of paranoia, > I'm running with the bonnet up on a spare PSU and that's running fine > too.
Unfortunately this does somewhat point the finger at your original PSU. > However, the point of getting a cab/ups/rackmount case *isn't* to > have bits lying everywhere. Too true. > I've got the PSU and a multimeter here... out of the box. How do I > persuade it to come to life so I can test it??? You will need to connect the PSU to the mobo, turn it on, and then measure. If you can measure while the disks are spinning up, many extra bonus points. Sorry yeah, this will affect your uptime; can't have everything (100% uptime, dodgy equipment, no spares, no budget, ... - pick N out of N + X, X > 1) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
