On Thursday 29 January 2009 20:23:40 Lanny Marcus wrote:
Anne, the machine I'm using right now ate my lunch big-time, perhaps a year ago. It turned out to be the front panel momentary power switch on the junky consumer-grade case. The really weird thing is, this box runs 24x7 and the switch hasn't been used very much. Go figure. Work-around/proof was to disconnect the power switch entirely, plugging reset switch to the vacated pwr sw header.
As far as I can see, all that's gone is my ~/.kde - and that's a big enough pain :-) So far, everything I've checked has been fine, so I'm thinking that it's either power or over-heating. Since I've been running tests for several hours, I'm inclined to rule out over-heating, so I'll get a new PSU. The case was not a cheap one, but it did have a built-in PSU. Come to think of it, I do believe that I have a 400w PSU in my cupboard, that is a known good brand, and unused.
Anne