[LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-17 Thread fons
Hello all, Early this week one of the three 'rendering' PCs of the WFS system in the Sala Bianca failed. It just appeared completely dead and didn't even try to boot when the power button was pressed, but the standby power (for the network interface) was available. I suspected the power supply,

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-17 Thread Folderol
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:46:01 +0200 f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Still it's quite sobering that this cheap 0.30 Euro thing was capable of bringing down a 1600 Euro workstation... Who would suspect a switch to fail in this way ? Ciao, Not the least bit surprised. In my industry crappy

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 22:46 +0200, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Hello all, Early this week one of the three 'rendering' PCs of the WFS system in the Sala Bianca failed. It just appeared completely dead and didn't even try to boot when the power button was pressed, but the standby power (for

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-17 Thread Arnold Krille
On Saturday 17 July 2010 22:46:01 f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: Still it's quite sobering that this cheap 0.30 Euro thing was capable of bringing down a 1600 Euro workstation... Who would suspect a switch to fail in this way ? For these just on installs, I change the bios to just power-on as

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 23:23 +0200, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: The strange thing about that PC power switch is that it is almost never used. The rendering machines wake up by a LAN message from the master, and shutdown by remote control as well. They are never touched. That makes it more easy

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-17 Thread drew Roberts
On Saturday 17 July 2010 17:17:05 Ralf Mardorf wrote: Debouncing and live time of switches always is a gambling game. Makes me remember key debouncing issues with the TRS-80 Model I keyboards... drew ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 18:04 -0400, drew Roberts wrote: On Saturday 17 July 2010 17:17:05 Ralf Mardorf wrote: Debouncing and live time of switches always is a gambling game. Makes me remember key debouncing issues with the TRS-80 Model I keyboards... drew In Germany they would arrest you

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:47:58 pm f...@kokkinizita.net did opine: Hello all, Early this week one of the three 'rendering' PCs of the WFS system in the Sala Bianca failed. It just appeared completely dead and didn't even try to boot when the power button was pressed, but the standby

Re: [LAD] [Somewhat OT] Strange failure mode of a PC

2010-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:59:08 pm drew Roberts did opine: On Saturday 17 July 2010 17:17:05 Ralf Mardorf wrote: Debouncing and live time of switches always is a gambling game. Makes me remember key debouncing issues with the TRS-80 Model I keyboards... drew I think that should