[GRLUG] Monitor Sleeping, Sorry, My first Post...Ever

[Greg Folkert]

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 18:15 -0500, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 08:11:51PM -0500, Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> > Topher wrote:
> > >> I have not.  Could *all three* power supplies on the three machines be 
> > >> bad?
> > > 
> > > I could see it happening, it all three experienced a similar power surge 
> > > at some point in the past.  If they all came from a similar environment 
> > > they could experience lots of similar things in that regard, like sucking 
> > > stuff from the air in the front and blowing it out the back by the power 
> > > supply fan.
> > 
> > And additionally they are all made from identical parts, and so could
> > all have a the same point of failure. A known good power supply is
> > definitely worth trying.
> 
> I tried another known good power supply and get the same.  I really
> wonder if the motherboard is bad.  Does this even make sense?  If so,
> anyone have a motherboard that will take a Pentium III 933MHz?
> Remember, it is for a good, local charity organization (read: "it needs
> to be free" - as in beer).

To be honest, I'd like to take a stab at these machines.

And since they are IBM machines, there *ARE* quirks on them. Do you have
ANY of the Restoration CDs they originally came with?

And if not, get the exact model off the front of the machines and the
monitors...

(I'm probably asking for duplicate info there) but I haven't yet looked
at my archives.
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