Re: [Sheflug] Power Failure - Dead machine. What to check?

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Alex Hudson wrote:
> 
> On 31 Jan 2001 23:49:22 +0000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> > One of the caps in the PSU looks a little funny, but it's hard to say if
> > its the cap dumping it's innards, or if it's just some sealant stuff.
> 
> Pop a multimeter across it and see if it charges. Actually, you really
> need to remove it to do that and be 100% sure, but you're near enough ;)

For a man who did 2 years at Uni on a EEE degree (and then flunked out)
it's hard to believe, but I don't even own a meter :-(

> > Strangely, the PSU is an AT, not ATX design - I thought all Pentium
> > systems were ATX. Obviously not.
> 
> ?? My P166+ sitting in front of me right now (48Mb RAM , thank you very
> much ;) is very much an AT computer. AT case, AT power supply,
> everything. No power management, it's not even a tower design. And yet
> it's running Evolution, Gnome, Debian, etc.. all at the latest (pretty
> much) revisions .. hehe.

 Don't ask me why I decided that Pentium = ATX, but I figured it was.
I'm not remotely bothered about things like power management - my main
box is a SMP machine - not much in the way of compatibility with power
saving stuff there.

Paul, I'm the same, if it's dead, it's dead. I can't be bothered going
to the effort of trying to fix something that has already taken a hit -
nice to see all those fuses helped :-)

I'm also not gonna bother sorting out a new case. Pulled a 486 (cost all
of £5) out of the corner, recompiled the kernel for a 486 and Bob's your
mothers brother.
The machine that died was identical to the firewall machine, so I nicked
the PSU out of that, then used the 486 for the firewall.

Baz.
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