Power Failure, Maybe?

[James Knott]

Francois Ouellette wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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.

That'll be a tad difficult to do, if he can't get it to power up.

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