On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 23:11 -0800, Cliff Wells wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 22:43 -0500, Shawn Singh wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Over the course of the past 2 weeks I've come home to a "zombie > > machine" two times. Here are the symptoms: > > > > It does sound like hardware. I'd check three things first: > > 1) Are all the fans in the system working? > 2) Check for swollen or leaking capacitors (see > http://www.trendit.co.za/capacitor.htm). This is *really* common, so > don't discount it until you've checked.
An added note on this: you can actually repair boards like this (you can replace any capacitor with a capacitor of equal or greater capacity), but I've found that it's not worth it. It can take a couple hours and is pretty hit or miss (I once replaced half the caps on a dead board which got it working, then replaced the other half and it never worked again :P). Regards, Cliff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
