Re: [TCLUG:5065] Computer turn on (won't)

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

New evidence: I took a wiff of my power supply fan and it emitts the same
smell so there are two possibilities I can think of:

1) Fan died and started over heating and made bad smell. Eventually the
power supply died from overheating. (I hope this is the case -- any place 
to buy a power supply new Northfield -- I don't have a car)

2) Fan died and started over heating and made bad smell. Eventually
something died that caused the power to go off and stay off. What could
this be? When a computer starts to overheat, what is first to go? I think
that a short on a card or the motherboard could kill the power, but I
don't know. Is there a way to force the power supply to turn on (unplug it
from everything first) to see if it works?

Also, if, say, my ram went dead would the power supply go on and then I
would get some beeps coresponding to ram error or are ATX cases to
'advanced' to do this?

Thanks, 

Ben
lueyb@carleton.edu



On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Paul Hocker wrote:

> 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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