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[dolari]

And to end the day on a totally perplexing twist, the pc came back up as if nothing had happened.

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[zaecus.livejournal.com]

O.O!

::kicks life again::

Did it work?

[tygerlander.livejournal.com]

O_o... ookay...

[gidget-ca.livejournal.com]

Not to be a wet blanket, but being a technician I should note that generally this happens due to slow (bad) capacitors in either the power supply or on the mainboard =/

So unfortunately you're probably not out of the woods -- it may limp along for a while yet (when it does go out you'll have to wait a while for the caps to discharge so the system will come back up but eventually it just won't.)

Might be time to start scrounging for replacement bits. See if you have poofy caps on your mainboard, if you do it will be the obvious culprit, if not it may be the PS. I'd try changing the PS first just simply because it's a cheaper solution, and you can always use a spare PS anyway...

[audaciousd.livejournal.com]

Hm... I agree with Gidget... I wouldn't trust it too much (I realize you're probably already thinking that too). "Latent catastrophic failure" is a cool phrase until it applies to you. :(

I dunno if I have any parts that would help ya, but if I do, lemme know.

[http://users.livejournal.com/strangelv__/]

I have a couple of K7 boards lying around, but I'm not exactly close. Neither is Houston, which is where this quarter's SLEC meeting is (I arrive in Houston tomorrow (Friday) and attempt to get sleep for the meeting on Saturday, then attempt to get back home despite not enough money for bus fare from Houston).

When I had balloon-shaped caps take out a motherboard, the diagnosis was that the power supply was responsible -- Also I've heard from more than one source that at least some Dell desktop power supplies aren't compatible with standard ATX. That said, with AMD CPUs and pre-installed Ubuntu very probable, I may be wanting to look at a Dell system at some point...

Hmmm...

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

...missed the original post, but if it's about hardware mysteries, there's no shortage of those. I had a scanner that Kevin installed for Linux, but back in Windows it was sticking. Just tried it in Linux again, and no problems (go figure)!