Re: [TCLUG:5065] Computer turn on

["Paul Hocker" <phocker@visi.com>]

Were you overclocking your chip. This is a common cause for CPU burnout!

Paul.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>
To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com <tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com>
Date: Sunday, April 04, 1999 10:36 AM
Subject: [TCLUG:5065] Computer turn on


>Not a linux question, but ...
>
>I have an atx motherboard and when I woke up this morning I noticed that
>my computer was off (I leave it on all the time). I thought there had a
>been a power surge or something (there wasn't) and that was why it was
>off. I pressed the power button and nothing happened. Absolutely nothing,
>no fan, no buzz. I opened up the case and see that the power button runs
>to the motherboard, so the problem could be:
>
>1) Power supply died
>2) Motherboard died
>3) A Card on the motherboard died (or mis-seated) causing the motherboard
>to no startup for safety (?? would the motherboard do this -- ASUS P5A)
>4) Something else??
>
>What should I do? How can I find out where the problem is. (The computer
>is under warrenty, but  I'd have to ship it .. so I'd rather just
>ship the bad part or replace it myself.)
>
>Also starting yesturday morning I noticed a wierd smell sorta like burning
>plastic. It didn't seem to be coming from the computer, but from a few
>feet out. When I opened up my computer today I noticed a milder version of
>this smell (but my computer had been off for maybe 10 hours) and the smell
>was gone from the room. I'm guessing that something was burning (what?)
>and was causing the smell and then caused my computer to turn off (I
>now know that there was no power surge or outage). Does this sound like my
>power supply since my computer turned off whereas if the motherboard died,
>the power supply's fan would keep going?? (I don't like this about ATX
>power supplies.)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ben
>
>
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