Strange hardware problem

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I've been offline most of this week because my MSI motherboard started
> shutting down on me. It was the strangest thing -- almost as if I had a
> poltergeist in the room or something. When I boot up, once the
> motherboard does a floppy seek or tries to access the hard disk or CD
> ROM, it suddenly shutd down. Note : this happens even before my OS has a
> chance to boot.
>
> Has anyone seen this kind of problem before? I'm pretty sure it's not
> the AMD CPU overheating. I did a CMOS reset, but it still gave me this
> problem.

Sounds like your power supply is dying.  Perhaps not able to deliver
sufficient power to spin up the drives.

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