Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

[Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>]

Volker Armin Hemmann writes:

> Am Dienstag, 28. August 2012, 22:57:43 schrieb Alex Schuster:

>> This sucks. Is it a faulty board again? Is something (the PSU?) killing
>> the board once I turn the thing on? What will happen when I have the
>> next board and try again? Argh.
>
> so - instead of changing the PSU, the obvious culprit, you got a new board AND
> USED THE SAME PSU?

YEAH :) Thinking about this now, yes, it would have made sense to test 
with another PSU first. But it wasn't so obvious to me, I simply thought 
I had bad luck with a bad board, that died. Happens.

> I am just saying - one faulty PSU fried three of my boards. Enermax... will
> never buy again.

So - instead of changing the PSU, the obvious culprit, you let it fry 
another board, and then... yet another one? Just saying :)

I once had the opposite problem, a mainboard seemed to kill PSUs. That 
was weird.

> The fans spin, so not all hope is lost. Keyboard, ps/2? usb?

It's a PS/2 keyboard.

> But before you do anything else, change the PSU.

I tried another one this morning, same problems. I guess the board is 
fried. So I'll order another one, and this time use another PSU.

Wow, they say it will take 2-3 weeks. So I'll see if there's another 
board that will fulfill my needs... and there is. Radeon 3000 instead of 
4250, and I remember having big trouble with my last Radeon 3250 
system... and no eSATA which I probably wouldn't miss anyway, but it 
also has no PATA at all. I can (and have to) live with this it seems, 
but it's somewhat inconvenient.

	Wonko