On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 08:40:31AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> Interesting stuff. I'm learning more about mobos than I ever wanted to
> know. :)
>
> However: No brown goo on the caps, no bulging components, so I don't
> think it's the capacitors. The fact that the machine is dying right at
> the start seems to indicate that the problem may be either RAM or the
> power supply. I'll check the RAM in another machine within a day or two,
> if it's okay then I'll try switching out the power supply.
>
> What a PITA.
Yep, hardware failures are no fun.
I'd guess the RAM too; I had a bad stick several years ago that
gave me gradually increasing kernel panics. Stupidly, I had no way
to back up everything at the time, only small documents to floppy,
and a forced reboot after one panic triggered a fsck on startup
during which the system crashed AGAIN rendering the disk unmountable.
That was fun I can tell you. I did eventually retrieve all my data
after replacing the RAM, but it took about two days of nonstop work.
since then I have set myself up with redundant hard drives,
occasional CD-RW and DVD-R backups, and journalling filesystems :-)
-- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.comReceived on Tue Jun 7 20:15:07 2005
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