On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:20:20 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:56 +, Beartooth wrote:
Well, all of my UPSs (iirc) are wired by the maker (APC) to complain if
not; this particular one, a duplicate of what my computer shop uses,
would probably do its celebrated
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That was probably a red herring and a brain fart, actually; the
second is a laptop
i will accept red herring. wind does not blow this way often. sound
carries even less.
What I'm trying to say is that the power cords I
ok.
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I thought I had implied that it was indeed the only way, or the
you did, but you failed to mention 2 computers on same ups. [see below]
No power cord I've ever seen could be pulled fast from anything I
not a matter of
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 16:07 +, Beartooth wrote:
The young friend was here yesterday evening, and concluded
immediately that the power supply was dead. Maybe it did arc
somewhere; odd that that hasn't happened before.
Not at all. Power supplies can die after a while like everything else,
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:12:25 +, g wrote:
Beartooth wrote:
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I thought I had implied that it was indeed the only way, or the
you did, but you failed to mention 2 computers on same ups. [see below]
That was probably a red herring and a brain fart, actually; the
second is a
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:51:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 16:07 +, Beartooth wrote:
The young friend was here yesterday evening, and concluded immediately
that the power supply was dead. Maybe it did arc somewhere; odd that
that hasn't happened before.
Not at
If you mean the brand then I wouldn't worry about it. They are all
pretty standard (and are also liable to fail after a few years).
They can also fail from silly things that happen by accident often
un-noticed. I zapped one a few months ago by the fine and wonderful
technique of dropping a
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:56 +, Beartooth wrote:
Well, all of my UPSs (iirc) are wired by the maker (APC) to
complain if not; this particular one, a duplicate of what my computer
shop uses, would probably do its celebrated imitation of a fire engine
in
a fight to the death with an
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:46 +, Beartooth wrote:
the power cords I have plug so deep and so tightly into both ends that
the only way to remove one is to wiggle it, gaining perhaps 1/5 mm per
wiggle.
Not generally a good idea, wiggling connectors weakens them, never mind
any arcing that
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 21:42 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
They can also fail from silly things that happen by accident often
un-noticed. I zapped one a few months ago by the fine and wonderful
technique of dropping a small screw into it.
Ah yes, the extra screw... ;-) Which is usually better than
My #1 machine (with F9 on one hard drive, and XP (to run topo
maps) on the other) won't do anything; it doesn't even turn its
little blue light on.
This *could* be my doing. Fool that I was, I went and
fiddled with what I had in sys-config-network, or whatever its
name is, and
Beartooth wrote:
My #1 machine (with F9 on one hard drive, and XP (to run topo
maps) on the other) won't do anything; it doesn't even turn its
little blue light on.
This *could* be my doing. Fool that I was, I went and
fiddled with what I had in sys-config-network, or whatever
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 16:05 +, Beartooth wrote:
My #1 machine (with F9 on one hard drive, and XP (to run topo
maps) on the other) won't do anything; it doesn't even turn its
little blue light on.
Hardware problem. Very likely the power supply, which in PCs are often
cheapo units
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:05:50PM +, Beartooth wrote:
My #1 machine (with F9 on one hard drive, and XP (to run topo
maps) on the other) won't do anything; it doesn't even turn its
little blue light on.
This *could* be my doing. Fool that I was, I went and
fiddled
torsdagen den 7 augusti 2008 skrev Beartooth:
My #1 machine (with F9 on one hard drive, and XP (to run topo
maps) on the other) won't do anything; it doesn't even turn its
little blue light on.
That sounds a lot like a hardware failure. When I had a similar failure I
ended up
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It hung up, early in the reboot sequence -- just starting
to shut down, in fact, iirc. Reset button did nothing; power
button did nothing; I pulled the plug, and walked away.
never just pull a power cord, unless that
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ooopppsss...
replace xt with atx and 'xt' with 'atx.
xt power supply [you do have newer 'xt' type mainboard?] has a 'standby'
+5v that is used for push button power on. this +5v must be jumpered to
another pin to
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if you want to trouble shoot power supply, let me know and i will dig
up pin out for power supply to mainboard connector. [if friend does not
already have].
i started to look and thought;
'not thru all of notes i have collected.
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