<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Michael Mol <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:12 PM, L. V. Lammert <<a href="mailto:lvl@omnitec.net">lvl@omnitec.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Bob Kline wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Yes, there is a green light on the<br>
>> back of the PS that is on. And yes,<br>
>> I did check the power strip. Many<br>
>> other things are plugged in to it,<br>
>> and are live, and I even moved to<br>
>> a different plug.<br>
>><br>
> If there is a green light on the back of the PC, it has power; either the<br>
> PS itself has failed, or there is a possibility that your power button has<br>
> a problem.<br>
><br>
> The power switch is actually a pushbutton, and are quite cheap on some<br>
> cases. It could be a conicidence that it has failed now that you need it?<br>
<br>
</div>It sounds like a power surge is what took down the system, so<br>
normally-off SPST pushbutton switch is highly unlikely to be affected.<br>
(Although I suppose it's possible that Bob bumped the wire loose while<br>
looking inside the box.)<br>
<br>
If the power surge is what took it out, I really wouldn't trust any of<br>
the components in the system. At best, I might try throwing the hard<br>
drive in an external enclosure to recover the data. I wouldn't want a<br>
fault in any of the rest to potentially cause damage when attached to<br>
other components. Electrical failures in circuit boards are finicky<br>
things. You don't know if, for example, a piece of the code that<br>
controls the onboard voltage regulators (yay, full software control<br>
for overclockers!) might have gotten borked, or if some other<br>
component will interfere with spec operation.<br>
<font color="#888888"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"> </font></font></font></blockquote><div>Good points. As winter sets in we can</div><div>look look forward to sparks from sweaters,</div>
<div>carpet, etc., to add to these hazards. It's</div><div>easy to forget how quickly static can take</div><div>out a component today.</div><div><br></div><div>Just by luck, I'd back up the hard drive</div><div>the day before. Perhaps the only bright</div>
<div>spot in this saga. So I have a backup </div><div>system going now, and but for a few </div><div>hours of changes to things, have not </div><div>lost anything, and maybe nothing if I</div><div>do find the hard drive in the affected</div>
<div>system is OK.</div><div><br></div><div>All perhaps another reason to run a UPS.... :-(</div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div><div> </div></div>
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