Power Failure, Maybe?

[Joseph Kubik]

Do you have the motherboard manual?
Does it tell you what those LEDs mean?
Have you tried unplugging the power from the PSU and letting the whole
thing sit for a bit? then turn it on?

Why did the machine power off if the UPS did its job yesterday?
-Joseph-

On 8/20/05, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I've got a box (Athlon / ~1700MHz) which, after the storm fun of
> yesterday, won't boot.
> 
> It was hooked to a UPS, so I'm reasonably confident it didn't get
> fried, but maybe something's up with the PSU...
> 
> Some parts do seem to work:
> - When 'switched on', the NIC lights up
> - When 'switched on', an assortment of LEDs on the motherboard fire up
> 
> But pressing the switch on the front that normally tells the mobo to
> tell disks to fire up and then boot doesn't do anything.
> 
> Does this seem like 'silly PSU failure'?  That's my suspicion...
> What's irritating is that what I'd rather do than fix it is to migrate
> files to the AMD64 box (nice Antec Sonata case), but that means having
> to power it up :-(.
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