Re: [SORTA SOLVED:] Re: recover from a bad F16 install

On 3/20/2012 3:05 AM, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 15:17 -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
Unless someone has a suggestion, I think I'll salvage for parts and
let it go at that.
Long shot: Power supply going bad, and became insufficient for your
hard drives to power up properly?


Tim:

Thanks for the reply.

I hadn't thought of the power supply as I assumed that if that were the problem, everything would go down rather than selective components as it got worse and worse. Took a look on eBay and pwoer supplies and certainly cheaper than motherboards --- I'm seeing $60-$90 range. I can see a whole lot of xw8000 stuff and it doesn't look like any of them have a bid.

Given its age and that I have two other older machines (HP x4000 ... both happily on F16 Xfce), I'm still thinking that I'm better off putting any money into a new 64bit system. But I'm going to think about it for a day as "under $100" warrants consideration.

If I knew someone with a spare that I could test to verify that it was, in fact, the power supply (or motherboard or whatever), it would certain make the gamble better.

Paul

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