[PLUG] What's the best way to troubleshoot severe and suddenhardware death?

[Jim Webb]

I concur with Rich.  And I might add that a bad power supply can fry your
board or it might have been vice versa in my case.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org]On Behalf Of Rich Shepard
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:44 AM
To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic
Subject: Re: [PLUG] What's the best way to troubleshoot severe and
suddenhardware death?


On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Carlos Konstanski wrote:

> Power supplies have a safety breaker in them.  I've tripped them just by
> touching the case with sufficient static charge built up on my person. The
> breaker flips back after a lengthy period of time (half hour?), but you
> have to unplug the power cord.

   And I've had two power supplies fail over the years. First thing I'd do
is
get a good power supply (I like the Antec quiet ones) and replace what's in
there.

Rich

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