Power Failure, Maybe?

[Christopher Browne]

On 8/22/05, Francois Ouellette <fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > 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.

The disks don't power up, so there's no way to get to the point where
I could do this, assuming that "BIOS zapping" were the problem...
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