Any suggestions, please?

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 00:02 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> This morning (many hours ago now) I booted up my system, had some 
> upgrades to 10.04.1 done (almost all to do with Firefox) and then, 
> suddenly the monitor screen went black, went into "sleep" mode - and 
> there were no responses from the keyboard or the mouse.
> 
> Rebooting achieved nothing.
> 
> While all the fans in the system (7 of them, including the CPU fan) plus 
> the HDs were working/spinning, the system would not boot, and there were 
> no beep(s) from the mobo to indicate what was wrong.
> 
> My conclusion was that some part of the mobo was dead.
> 
> But what?
> 
> Could anyone please offer suggestions as to what I could check to see 
> which part of the mobo has 'died'?
> 
> (( have transferred my main components to another chassis/mobo to keep 
> going, which I am now doing, but the downgrade from 3200+ Athlon XP with 
> 1.5GB of RAM to a 1200+ XP with 500MB of RAM is just kinda difficult to 
> adjust to :-) - not impossible, mind you, but somewhat disorientating. 
> [For the first time I see that my Swap file is being used! :-) .]
> 
> (Actually, without prejudice, I see no real degradation of performance 
> by Ubuntu 10.04.1 provided that I only have one or two main applications 
> running.)
> 
> (Oh, I am running, and have run, a 32-bit system with ATA IDE drives - a 
> system which I built myself.
> 
> Any ideas, folks?

Heh, were you working on that self-destructing graphic file perhaps?? :)
Ric


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