Have you check the power supply in the machine. I had a machine do random things because I didn't realise that I had over loaded the power supply and one day buff my supply went. It sounds like you have done some power supply damage to me. Use a test meter to see if there is life.
-- Damien J Dye Madwire Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Irvine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [scottish] Computer Died - Need Ideas > On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 14:25, Phil Deane wrote: > > > > > > Hi Folks > > > > Let me tell you what happened before I start asking questions. > > > > On Wednesday night about 630pm I had the computer booted using linux, i told > > it to update which it was doing through the night, in the morning i booted > > it into windows xp where it stayed until i got home at about 6:30pm on > > thursday where my mandrake 8.2 discs where waiting on me. I updated my > > distro , got my [rinter working (woo hoo) and staretd it updating again. At > > about 2:30am Friday i told linux to reboot into windows, and it got stuck > > shutting down the usb devices. > > > > It hung not doing anything, so i hit the reset switch, wouldn't reset. So i > > flicked the power off, and there started my problem, the fecking thing would > > not come back on again. I have now built another machine from spare parts, > > maybe not the fastest in the world, but functional. My old machine would not > > power back up again. Although my original Hard disks still work, but my > > floppy seems to on the blink, but that could be because i bent one of the > > pins when i wa transferring it > > > > To cut a long story short i just got it working again, by reseting the bios, > > 2 days after it happened. > > > > Could this have been caued by linux or could it have been caused by > > coincedence, since it was up for nearly 30 hours? ( People may remember my > > post abou thge noisy fan, so it may have overheated) > > > > Can anyone offer any solutions, unfortunatly to get it working again i have > > had to reformat my linux partition, so i have no logs of what happened. > > > > Could it maybe have happened because i updated the distro from 7.2 to 8.1 > > instead of doing a fresh install? and it somehow affected the usb drivers? > > > > Could it happen again?? > > Its unlikly anything like upgrading could kill your bios. It is quite > possible if your computer was running hot that it overheated and the > bios attempted to kick in and shut off the machine and failed or > something like that. > > If my cpu gets to 80degrees, my pc resets itself, (Actually its > supposed to shut off, but for some reason my machine is incapable of > being powered down, if i want to turn it off i actually need to pull the > plug out the back even from a normal shutdown - Started doing it a > while back, no idea why :) > > Its also possible if it tried to update a library that was being used > (glibc comes to mind) that something important was linked to the older > version and borked because something changed. > > > > > Is linux that powerful that it can rewrite the bios settings? > > Linux can write to the bios, remember those programs you get to upgrade > your bios in dos. Linux is just as capable with the right software. And > if you enable it in the bios you can get a device in /dev which you can > use to manipulate your computers nvram. > > > > Anyone have any solutions? theories? > > Not really, i would put it down to cooincidence, possible if your > computer was doing a lot of decompression/disc io etc it could have > overheated. The bios could have overheated or something as a result. > Then again it could have just been one of those things. > > > > > I wanted to send this email before i rebuilt my normal computer, (this one i > > am using is a p200 with 64mb ram, hellish slow using winxp) and my normal > > one is a p3 800 with 312mb ram, > > > > Please excuse the spelling as I am using web based mail for this till i get > > email set up properly again, and also i am using a lower res than i normally > > use so it may look distorted. > > > > Thanks in Advance > > Phil > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
