hardware issue

[Net Llama!]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, dep wrote:
> this is strange.
>
> this morning my desktop machine just stopped. shut down.
>
> it's an athlon 2.3; i thought that maybe the chip fan had died and
> had therefore shut everything down, but the fan certainly moves
> freely. i can't tell more than that because the switch, which is one
> of those non-switch switches, has no effect in bringing power to the
> machine.
>
> my thought is that i popped a fuse in the power supply, but i can
> find no external fuse socket.
>
> i'm utterly at a loss. informed adice, ill-informed suggestions, and
> anything else would be welcome.

By shutdown, you mean it wasn't powered on, or it shutdown gracefully, and
wouldn't power back up again?

If it just wasn't powered on this morning, then you definitely have got a
case of hardware failure.  My money would be on the PSU first, however
I've seen cases where a bad memory module could cause this too.  If you've
got more than 1, try swapping them out, so that you only have 1 in the
mobo at a time, and see if it powers up.

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