[Novalug] dead power supply?

[Daniel Green]

Sounds like the excess heat from the heat sink has broken down the
integrity of the plug.  Pull the drives and back up your data.  If you
can't get it working, bring it to the novalug meeting (minus
your hard-drives) where I can take a look at it.  I will need it for a day.
 I have some extra CPUs but I'm not sure of the Chipsets.  We can  find you
another machine on the novalug forums without braking the bank; hence "list
users" please post your  old items.

Daniel

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:28 PM, greg pryzby <greg at pryzby.org> wrote:

> There are 4 connectors and a hugfe round sink w/ a fan on top and some
> copper stuff to the side. Two of the connectors aren't as tight
> (sitting down) as I would like. When i touch them, they are seated,
> and then they wiggle loose. Guess this is the issue. The machine is
> old enough that I don't know I get a replacement.
>
> sigh
> ASUS p5kc mobo
> don't recall the exact CPU (Intel I am pretty sure)
>
> Tme to pull the drives to make sure I can still access them
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Daniel Green <dgreen at techais.com> wrote:
> > Similar to Jon, I had the same issue with the plugs.  It is possible
> that it
> > could be a motherboard or CPU.   If you have a ohmmeter or a  continuity
> > tester to check the plug.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> > http://www.techais.com
> >>
> >>
> >> Today's Topics:
> >>
> >>   1. Re: dead power supply? (Jon LaBadie)
> >>   3. Re: dead power supply? (Igor Birman)
> >>
> >>
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> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:15:40 -0500
> >> From: Jon LaBadie <novalugml at jgcomp.com>
> >>
> >> Subject: Re: [Novalug] dead power supply?
> >> To: novalug at calypso.tux.org
> >> Message-ID: <20120208201540.GA19893 at butch.jgcomp.com>
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> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 02:56:15PM -0500, greg pryzby wrote:
> >> > Interesting... will do... it was working just 5 minutes earlier :(
> >> >
> >> >
> >> I forgot, I had one that was somewhat similar.  System would start
> >> to boot and get to a variable stage before shutting down.  Sometimes
> >> it restarted automatically and again failed.
> >>
> >> Turned out to be a cracked plastic piece on the cpu fan
> >> hold down.  The clip on the high side was still good so
> >> the fan seemed to be in the normal position.  But with
> >> the lower clip broken it was not in solid contact with
> >> the cpu.  This caused it to quickly overheat and shutdown.
> >>
> >> Jon
> >> --
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> >> Message: 3
> >> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 12:49:25 -0800 (PST)
> >> From: Igor Birman <igor_birman at yahoo.com>
> >>
> >> Subject: Re: [Novalug] dead power supply?
> >> To: Jon LaBadie <novalugml at jgcomp.com>, "novalug at calypso.tux.org"
> >>        <novalug at calypso.tux.org>
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> >>
> >> I agree, sounds like a thermal issue..
> >>
> >> Igor
> >>
> >>
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