From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF772138010 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:48:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AB7FE0517; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4CCDE0521 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:46:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (p578b7bed.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.139.123.237]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D91D3DC04A for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:46:32 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <503E0118.9000207@wonkology.org> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:46:32 +0200 From: Alex Schuster Organization: Wonkology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try? References: <502DF7D0.8010200@wonkology.org> <502E9E84.4060500@wonkology.org> <503D30C7.1000209@wonkology.org> <3001606.K5Lv976dz7@energy> In-Reply-To: <3001606.K5Lv976dz7@energy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: af4171a3-17a4-41d6-9d22-f46b328cd49d X-Archives-Hash: 0e11a8212fe0b6faadbcc234d4d86212 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