On 3/20/2012 3:05 AM, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 15:17 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
Unless someone has a suggestion, I think I'll salvage for parts and
let it go at that.
Long shot: Power supply going bad, and became insufficient for your
hard drives to power up properly?
Tim:
Thanks for the reply.
I hadn't thought of the power supply as I assumed that if that were the
problem, everything would go down rather than selective components as it
got worse and worse. Took a look on eBay and pwoer supplies and
certainly cheaper than motherboards --- I'm seeing $60-$90 range. I can
see a whole lot of xw8000 stuff and it doesn't look like any of them
have a bid.
Given its age and that I have two other older machines (HP x4000 ...
both happily on F16 Xfce), I'm still thinking that I'm better off
putting any money into a new 64bit system. But I'm going to think about
it for a day as "under $100" warrants consideration.
If I knew someone with a spare that I could test to verify that it was,
in fact, the power supply (or motherboard or whatever), it would certain
make the gamble better.
Paul
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