oh, man... WAS: Re:is my power supply failing?

[Vlad]

        Also, make sure that it's the right kind of a power supply.

        That is, for most people, it'll be an ATX 2.XX model, that has
a 24pin main rail, and often a 4 or 8 pin additional 12V rail that
goes into the mainboard.

        There are other pin-compatible power wiring layouts. For
example, a Tyan board I have (Tyan S2603 - i860 Thunder) uses a WTX
power supply. I could plug in an ATX or EPS12V one, but... not so good
results.
        The dual Athlon board before, (Tyan S2462 - K7 Thunder) had an
even odder power wiring layout GES-12V.

        But, I digress. Did you grab the right power supply kind? If
it's not the capacitors as someone else mentioned, it could be a
different PSU kind, and, well, that kind of a thing fries boards
permanently.

        Cheers,

        -- Vlad

On 5/4/06, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Well, as to whether it helped...  a little hard to say.  I managed to
> > generate another crash by running my dvd player & compiling a kernel; I
> > watched the cpu temp rocket up and the voltages move further off their
> > marks, and decided I really needed a new PSU right away.  SO I just cycled
> > down & bought a medium-priced one -- perhaps not an ideal choice -- and
> > switched them out...  and voila!  I've produced an absolutley screwed up
> > system.  THe mystem starts to boot, gets to the memory check, finishes it,
> > and then... nothing.  can't get into BIOS or anything.  I tried the old
> > PSU
> > and it doesn'twork.  I'm wondering if I've forgotten something fundamental
> > but can't think of anything (well, that's the definition of 'forget',
> > isn't
> > it...).  The main power is plugged in properly, the HD's are powered on...
> > is there anything else?  The CPU is recognied, as is the memory -- what
> > else
> > would prevent me from getting into BIOS?
> >
> > anyway, sorry to start moving OT, I'm just a bit panicky & depressed (is
> > that possible?) about this.
> >
> > In German there's a special word for this: "verschlimbessern" hwich means
> > "to break something further by trying to fix it".  I use that word more
> > often than I wouldl ike to.
> >
> > matt
>
> Check this out and see if yours match at all:
>
> http://www.auroracomputer.ca/bad_capacitors.htm
>
> Those type of caps should always be perfectly flat on their top.
>
> Madison
>
>
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