[ale] CentOS keeps rebooting

Fri Nov 15 08:27:18 EST 2013

Not practical to get the failed capacitors replaced?  I rescued
Mom's beloved iMac G5 after it had gone "pop" & emitted nasty
smell & smoke.  Local industrial electronics place replaced
(all) the caps.  (I R&R'd the logic board myself for them.)
Wasn't very expensive to get done, at least able to postpone
replacing that system awhile.  -kc

> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 07:39:57 -0500
> From: Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] CentOS keeps rebooting
>
> Scott,
>
> It a small form factory, it was given to me to help with openSUSE. I
> pulled the hard drive and booted with live dvd same thing, I think it
> mother board as there are three capacitors that have open up like
> flowers and have some tan stuff coming out them. I even used the SATA
> bay I have to try to boot it external, it the words of Bone.  "It's
> Dead, Jim"
>
> Thanks anyway, I love that PC as I could pull in a bag and got to talk
> or a show and demo openSUSE.
>
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If that's the case you maybe able to go with a PCI(e) card to SATA or PATA
> > IDE. Then just disable in BIOS the onboard controller. If you don't have one
> > I may have one laying around that you're welcome to have.
> >
> > Scott C
> >
> > On 11/14/2013 12:47 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:
> >>
> >> I think it the on board hard drive controller, it boots up and stays
> >> up on the dvd.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I will try finnix, I did try to do a default bios load, and now it
> >>> worse. Crap. Hopefully finnix will give me some clues.
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> If not, it is on the Finnix live cd.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> From: leam hall [mailto:leamhall at gmail.com]
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:27 AM Central Standard Time
> >>>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [ale] CentOS keeps rebooting
> >>>>
> >>>> Don't some of the install disks come with memtest? That might give you a
> >>>> CPU/memory test.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Guys,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have an old dell GX620 Small factor  that was giving for
> >>>>> development, but I think it dying, not sure how to test it to see what
> >>>>> needs to be fix.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It is currently my spacewalk server that I test the latest and
> >>>>> greatest from RHEL/Fedora, what it is doing is it boots up all way,
> >>>>> then a sec later it reboot on it own.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I tried to rebuild it, but it not install on the hard drive, it fact
> >>>>> it reboots and I am left with grub. I have notice that some of
> >>>>> capacitors look like they are about to open up. That not suppose to
> >>>>> happen correct, they should stayed close.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Is there something that I can run to see the over all health of my
> >>>>> poor box. I hope it not dying as I living on donate hardware and this
> >>>>> would be a great lose to me as it all my openSUSE test box as well.
> >>>>>
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