Strange hardware problem

[harley7@mnsi.net]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:25:24 -0500 (EST)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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.

I'll second that. I had a similar problem a while back. It didn't happen
as early on, however. It would reset itself after a random amount of
time. Sometimes after an hour, sometimes longer. Replacing the power
supply fixed everything.

Bill