[bedevtalk] Slow death of a BeBox...

[Luiz Pimenta]

Pete Goodeve wrote:

> I suppose it could be power supply -- they seem to be the least reliable
> components of these things.  Strange that the fault is always the same
> though -- display frozen and blinkenlights low and steady.  I did link
> up a serial KDB link at one point, and saw it was in a spinlock, vut
> that didn't tell me much more.

I never had a BeBox but I saw a problem like that on a Athlon 1 GHz and 
the cause for lockups was the power supply. I could see a low voltage on 
the BIOS hardware monitor for the 5V pin and that was it. A new power 
supply solved the problem.

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Luiz.