Power Failure, Maybe?

[Francois Ouellette]

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From: "James Knott" <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Monday, 22 August, 2005 21:26
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Power Failure, Maybe?


> Christopher Browne 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 :-(.
>
> Try unplugging it from the power for several minutes and try again.
> It's possible it's locked in some state, that it can't get out of.


Maybe the BIOS has been zapped?
Try re-flashing it from a boot diskette with the appropriate utility and
BIOS binary image.

  François Ouellette
<fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>

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