Power Failure, Maybe?

[William Park]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 01:11:09PM -0400, 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.

If the disk spins but motherboard doesn't boot, then it's probably
motherboard or disk.  If your PS is anything decent, I doubt it's it.

> 
> 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 :-(.

For moving the files, why not move the harddisks?

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