In reply to g's mail, d.d. Sun, 26 Jan 2003 00:56:31 +0000: >knowledge of your back broke desktop/tower contents would be helpful. > >if it is still running, i would suggest 3 possible problems to go after >first. > >#1 = power supply: > does fan stop?
No, it keeps going. > do you lose all voltages? No. There is still power on the mainboard led and the leds of the network cards. >#2 = heat: > are you testing with covers on or off? Both. Same result. > do you have good air circulation? > cpu have correct heat sink and fan? Yes and yes. > is memory over heating? No, it is not. I cannot imagine that it does. I can leave the PC off for 2 hours, which should be enough to cool off most parts. When I switch the PC on in the upright position (and refrain from smoking ;) it stops within 2 minutes. The hybernate led starts blinking and that's it. Which really is weird, since I have the BIOS set to never go into hybernate. > does mainboard have heat sensors? Yes, they both show on LM Sensors (through Gkrellm). The CPU (Athlon 1200) shows 78C (149F) and something else shows 29.2C (75.5F). I am not sure if I set the multiplier readings in Gkrellm correctly, but this is what I also could see (plus or minus a few degrees) when then machine was still upright. So no change there. >#3 = harddisk: > is drive new? if used, was it previously mounted flat or on side? The drives (2 x 30Gb ata100) came with the system. It is a little over 1.5 years old now. The drives previously were mounted flat, now they are on the side. > if drive is flat and stops, flip upside down, still run? > if drive on side and stops, flip to other side, still run? > if drive is flat and stops, turn to side, still run? > if drive on side and stops, turn to flat, still run? I'd have to try these out sometime. I'll let you know. Thanks for the ideas. Paul > think green... > save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. > send email... text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments I like this!!! :-) -- Never lend books -- nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. -Anatole France http://nlpagan.net - Linux by Mandrake - Sylpheed by Hiro
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