Strange hardware problem

[Chong Yu Meng]

harley7 at mnsi.net wrote:

>On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:25:24 -0500 (EST)
>Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
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>>On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
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>>>Hi all!
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>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>Sounds like your power supply is dying.  Perhaps not able to deliver
>>sufficient power to spin up the drives.
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>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
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Oh no ! I thought the problem was with my motherboard! More money down 
the drain ... oh well...