Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Toby Bluhm Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:42 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Emergency rescue help needed

Anne Wilson wrote: . . .

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I do have a UPS, and it's fully charged. The system is just spontaneously rebooting or shutting down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague.

I just fixed a test box that kept getting something like "received INT 11 - no one cared" and then locks up. Replaced two caps - I yanked them from some old, defunct power supplies.

----- How did you know they were bad? Could you explain to her what to look for and how to use a Multimeter?

JohnStanley