PC Hardware troubleshooting
by James Pluck
Hi All,
I have been having an intermittent fault with my PC which has now become
permanent and I'm wracking my brain to resolve it.
Firstly - PC Spec
AMD x64 X2 AM2 3800 CPU
ASUS AM2 Nforce 570 mobo
Nvidia 7600GT 256 video card (Point of View is the manufacturer)
1 GB DDR2 667 ram
250GB SATA2 Seagate Barracuda HDD
80 GB ATA133 HDD
DVD writer
Thermaltake Soprano case with stock thermaltake 430W psu
Symptom:
On Powerup system starts to power up - fans start (2x120 mm case fans, chip
fan, GPU fan), hdd's start, DVD starts - then before POST whole thing shuts
down. No bios beeps - nothing. I don't get the GPU POST or the system
POST.
I've done everything I can think of
* Undo and reseat all cards and cables - test - same problem
* disconnect all DVD and HDD (only mobo, ram and video connected) - test -
that worked lat the beginning of the week but fault recurred last night.
Redoing all tests so far doesn't work.
* Removed and reseated ram - test - no go.
I'm not sure if I have a PSU issue (fail or too much connected for the
rating of the PSU), a graphics card failing, a ram card failing, a mobo fail
or a chip fail. I don't have the hardware (this is my only pci-e system and
my only sata capable system) to swap out components to isolate.
Oh... and the warranty expired in November :(
Can anyone suggest anything else I could do to troubleshoot this problem?
Cheers
James.
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12 years, 2 months
WLUG Fixit Meeting is today!
by Meeting Reminder bot
A reminder, the WLUG Fixit Meeting is today.
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Saturday Workshop has been postponed for a week due to all of the keyholders being away on a course on Saturday 1st. Workshop will be on Saturday 8th.
12 years, 3 months
Re: [wlug] Richard Stallman
by David Bowen
"I wonder if The Honorable David Cunliffe could be persuaded to attend."
That sounds like a good idea, but as an election will be around that time, an invite to likely contenders for his job from other party's may also be in order?
David
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12 years, 3 months
Richard Stallman - Waikato University
by rsinel＠bredband.net
Hello,
I'm an ex pat kiwi from Hamilton living in Stockholm Sweden.
I met Richard Stallman last night at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology. I asked him if he had visited New
Zealand and he said he had done twice and is planning to return there again this year in August to do some talks.
I asked him is he had ever been to Hamilton and Waikato university, but he hadn't.
Then he said to me "I'm open to going to new places and my schedule is not set yet, so if you your interested in me
coming there for a talk get in contact with me"
So, as I've been away from Hamilton since 1992, I hand over this information you, the Waikato GNU/Linux users group.
I have a contact here in the Freesoftware foundation who has the good contact with Richard Stallman and has his
contact details.
This is a great opportunity that I think Waikato University should look into. Last night Richard Stallman held a free
two hour talk on FreeSoftware to 300 people here in Stockholm.
I don't have any contacts at the Waikato University computer science department, so I'm hoping someone who reads this
will contact me regarding follow up of this opportunity.
I wrote in my blog about last night if your interested in knowing more.
http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com/blog/
Regards
Roger Sinel
roger.sinel(a)nordickiwi.com
www.nordickiwi.com
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12 years, 3 months
Re: [wlug] Richard Stallman - Waikato University
by Roger Sinel
Your Welcome,
Yes Richard Stallman has very strong views. He is a very interesting
speaker that captivates his audience. Last night he got the crowd
laughing and applauding as he spoke. Then had us dead silent as he
vibrantly spoke about other powerful issues. Weather one agrees with
them or not it's a special thing to hear these views addressed with a
live audience.
/Roger
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 09:43 +1300, Daniel Lawson wrote:
> On 28/02/2008, at 9:20 AM, Roger Sinel wrote:
>
> > Daniel, yes after I sent this e-mail to the list I searched for
> > Richard
> > Stallman and Waikato university and I also saw that he had been there
> > before. http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/wlug/1999-March/
> > 000030.html
> >
> > Yes he has traveled a lot and still does, so names and places would be
> > hard to remember. But he did say, Auckland, Wellington and
> > Christchurch.
>
> :)
>
> Thanks for thinking of it anyway - it's always good to get interesting
> speakers in. Not everyone agrees with RMS's position on a lot of
> things, but if everyone agreed on things life would get pretty dull.
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Mvh
Roger Sinel
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www.nordickiwi.com
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12 years, 3 months
Re: [wlug] Richard Stallman - Waikato University
by Lindsay Druett
Hey Guys,
Can everyone please refrain from trying to set the record straight as to
when/if Richard Stallman visited last ?
It's an awesome opportunity which Bruce is currently pursuing as we
speak.
Sorry Daniel, your email was the first one, so I grabbed that.
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 09:11 +1300, Daniel Lawson wrote:
> > I asked him is he had ever been to Hamilton and Waikato university,
> > but he hadn't.
>
> Which is odd, because I saw him talk at Waikato University in Hamilton
> in the late 90's.
>
> I guess he's been so many places, keeping track of them all is
> hard... :)
>
>
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12 years, 3 months
Saturday workshop postponed
by Bruce Kingsbury
I've just had a call back from Vicky at TWP, and it seems that all of the
keyholders will be away at a course on Saturday 1st, so we'll have to have
Saturday workshop a week later.
The March Saturday Workshop will be on March 8th. I've updated the wiki
too..
12 years, 3 months
