Strange hardware problem

[harley7@mnsi.net]

On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 08:35:45 +0800
Chong Yu Meng <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:

> harley7 at mnsi.net wrote:
> 
> >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
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> Oh no ! I thought the problem was with my motherboard! More money down
> 
> the drain ... oh well...

Not really. If the old motherboard turns out be good, you've got an
extra motherboard. ;-)

Bill