Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:54:29 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT: dead box Message-ID: <20100407175429.GA40696@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100321101137.GA8202@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <20100321101137.GA8202@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:11:37AM +0000, Frank Shute wrote: > > Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. > > I came in the other day to find my workstation powered off. Hitting > the power on button had no effect as did using another known working > outlet. I checked all the cables and they seem attached. > > I thought my power supply must have died so I got another, screwed it > in and again no joy - no sign of life. > > Anybody got any ideas what the problem may be? I'm thinking possibly > the power on switch but that seems a long shot and there seems no easy > way to replace it. > > My hardware: > > Antec Sonata case. > Gigabyte board. > Core 2 duo > > TIA, > Apologies for responding to my own post but I thought I should relate what the problem was for the archives. I tried reseating all attachments to the MB but that didn't prove fruitful. So since I thought it was upgrade time anyway, I bought a new MB and Intel quad core to go with it aswell as a 40GB Intel SSD. I repurposed the memory from the old MB to go with the new MB. Assembled it all and it worked. The old HD was OK too. So from that I deduce that the problem was either the cpu, MB or some dodgy attachment that the new assembly bypassed. The SSD has proved it's worth. Port builds are a lot faster, launching applications such as Mutt and Firefox are near instantaneous. locate(1) and find(1) jobs are pretty near instantaneous. So my advice to anybody still using EM HDs on a workstation is to get an SSD as your next upgrade if you haven't already. I suppose I'm fortunate in that my data needs are fairly small: $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad5s1a 1982798 261090 1563086 14% / devfs 1 1 0 100% /dev /dev/ad5s1e 19566 22 17980 0% /tmp /dev/ad5s1f 29893284 7870578 19631244 29% /usr /dev/ad5s1d 1982798 69718 1754458 4% /var I just installed 8.0 and rsynced ~/ over. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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