Audioaficionado
02-24-04, 12:29 AM
I came home from work and checked my email and posts/threads on my favorite BBs as usual.
I was playing winamp and ran Perfect Disk to defrag my second logical partition that my main OS is on. No issues so far.
After I left for classes, my wife checked her mail and played her favorite winamp shoutcast station then shut off winamp when she finished and left the computer. I assume the monitor power saving kicked in and the monitor shut off.
I came home 4 hours later and found my Shuttle unresponsive. The fan was still low speed as it always runs but there was no heat or warm air coming from the heat pipe or fan. The 250w Silent-X power supply was putting out some warm air from its fan.
When I reset the computer using the reset button the fan came on high like always but this time it stays on and won't post.
I tried the reset jumper, insert+power on button, try only one RAM stick at a time in DIMM 1 tricks to no avail.
I went ahead and swung the Silent-X out of the way and replaced the BIOS chip with my backup chip from Shuttle but still no post.
Since the processor is cold, I'm thinking maybe it somehow failed. It wasn't running very hot, only ~50°C and 1.55vcore.
There is no funny or burnt smells present that I could detect.
Any constructive suggestions and ideas would be welcome.
I was playing winamp and ran Perfect Disk to defrag my second logical partition that my main OS is on. No issues so far.
After I left for classes, my wife checked her mail and played her favorite winamp shoutcast station then shut off winamp when she finished and left the computer. I assume the monitor power saving kicked in and the monitor shut off.
I came home 4 hours later and found my Shuttle unresponsive. The fan was still low speed as it always runs but there was no heat or warm air coming from the heat pipe or fan. The 250w Silent-X power supply was putting out some warm air from its fan.
When I reset the computer using the reset button the fan came on high like always but this time it stays on and won't post.
I tried the reset jumper, insert+power on button, try only one RAM stick at a time in DIMM 1 tricks to no avail.
I went ahead and swung the Silent-X out of the way and replaced the BIOS chip with my backup chip from Shuttle but still no post.
Since the processor is cold, I'm thinking maybe it somehow failed. It wasn't running very hot, only ~50°C and 1.55vcore.
There is no funny or burnt smells present that I could detect.
Any constructive suggestions and ideas would be welcome.