On 1/10/2013 3:25 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > On 01/10/2013 03:13 PM, Jim Garrison wrote: >> On 1/10/2013 2:19 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: >>> My test machine, a Gateway E-4500D that I got a couple of months ago at >>> Free Geek, has developed an odd power problem.<...> >> Swap out power supplies. A power supply produces several different >> voltages (+12, -12, +5) that feed different subsystems. One of >> these may be bad, so the place to start is with a different power >> supply. > > I was afraid you, or someone else, were going to say that. > >> One test you might try before that is disconnecting power >> from every internal device (hard disk, floppy, DVD) except the >> motherboard to see if you can get to the BIOS. > > A project for this weekend. Sigh.
Do you get any beep codes (sequences of beeps in distinct groupings). If so check the motherboard manufacturer's support documents to decipher the codes. -- Jim Garrison ([email protected]) PGP Keys at http://www.jhmg.net RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
