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Thursday, October 16, 2003
Compu-Mystery
My computer woes continue in a most bizarre way. If anyone out there has any ideas, PLEASE let me know...
So here's the deal: I tried to put that hard drive in my P3 Windows box. There was a little spark, and it died. It wouldn't boot. I took it to the kitchen to start a postmortem, and it booted. I plugged it back in in the office, and it booted once, and then wouldn't. And it stayed dead.
So I took it apart, keeping the good stuff.
Just so I'd have something to tide me over, I got my 200Mhz linux box out of the basement, and brought it up here to the office. I plugged it in, used it to check email and start SSHd, and then powered down. Now *it* won't start anymore. Won't boot. You can see the cooling fan on the processor try to start, and then nothing. Won't power on.
SO...it was plugged into the same power strip as the other one. Could something be wrong with the STRIP? But if there is, how or why would it fry my power supplies (working theory) when I power the computers down? Shouldn't it either work or not work? I mean...there's no way that it's coincidence. What's going on, and how do I fix it before I plug in my replacement stuff?
Tech-types and gearheads (Paul Day and Baratunde, I'm looking in your direction)...PLEASE HELP!!!
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