Power Failure, Maybe?

[William Park]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:26:35AM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On 8/22/05, Francois Ouellette <fouellet-cpI+UMyWUv9BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > 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...

Then, 
    1.  Disconnect all disks.  Boot with only motherboard connected.

    2.  If you have multimeter, check +5, -5, +12, -12 V output of power
	supply.  (But, it's difficult to tell simply by DC reading.)

    3.  Swap the power supply.  If still won't boot, then it's your
	motherboard.

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