On Thursday 07 September 2006 18:46, Christopher Inscribed Thus:
> That typically indicates a bad component in the system or a short
> somewhere.
-
> Harondel J. Sibble
>
> I would agree- however I pulled everything, put in a new MB w/cpu,
> and always saw the same failure- after several minutes, the system
> shut off- like I pulled the plug. I tried every combination of the
> components, (both
> in and out) I could think of, and wasn't until I moved the components
> into a
> new case with a new ps that everything worked. I could give you the
> whole
> list of what I tried, but it is very long (took about 5 hours of
> swapping,
> trying, replacing, trying, etc.
> I suspected the ps as it was only about a month and a half old, and
> I know from 20 years as an electronics tech in the Navy that
> generally, if a
> component is going to fail it fails within the first 90 days or so--
> unless
> it is an age related failure and not a manufacturing defect. I paid
> 25 bucks at the local computer store to have them check if it was the
> ps or the
> mb- they tested the ps and declared it good. That was what started
> the whole mb swap etc.
>
> Chris
>
> A bit poorer but a bit wiser.
By any chance did the case use screw in stand off spacers ?
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Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug at play-net.co.uk
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