[ale] Strange start-up problems

[Greg]

yes and I still get nothing.  Actually I think it is my power supply.  2
sites that I went to on the internet suggested that the required power + 1/3
safety allowance should be around 840 or 890 watts.  The power supply I have
in there now is a 550 watt power supply (Ultra).  My setup is as follows ::

AccelerTech Arima HDAMC motherboard
4 case fans
2 AMD Opteron 246s @ 2.0 GHz ea.
4 sticks of 512 RAM for a total of 2 GB
5 SATA hard drives
1 Escalade RAID card for 4 of the hard drives
1 AGP GeForce GF FX5200 256 MB video card
1 nVIDIA GF2  MX400 PCI 32 MB video card in a PCI slot for a second monitor
1 Audiogy Sound Blaster 2 ZS sound card

The case is properly grounded as far as I can tell & there have been no
indications of a short.

- Greg






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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Mike
To: ale at ale.org
Kachline
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:51 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Strange start-up problems


	On 1/23/07, Greg <runman at speedfactory.net > wrote:
	> The other day my primary workstation went out for no reason.  I
	> methodically started pulling out cards until I got it to start
again
	> with just a single drive (SATA) and the AGP video card in it.  It
ran 



Did you try POST'ing without a video card and without the HDD?
If memory serves right, posting without a video card should yield three long
beeps.

Also, is there potentially a grounding issue with the Mobo in the case? 

  - Mike




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