RE: Re: [TCLUG:5065] Computer turn on

[chad@speed-racer.com]

that could cause it, but power supplies, ditry power, lots of stuff can hapen. kinda 
rare.  overclocking a system will usually either not boot at all or give lots of errors, 
very rarely wil it fry. 
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>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
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>>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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