Mandrake on an old Packard Bell

[Timothy Domst]

On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 10:10  AM, green_man wrote:

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> Timothy Domst wrote, On 12/15/03 8:00 PM:
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>> I bought a new motherboard for an old Packard Bell I have, I put 
>> everything together and installed Mandrake, it installed fine and I 
>> used Gnome to tell it to shut down.  It went through all the steps 
>> and shut down, but then it would start up again immediately.  The 
>> power button wouldn't shut it down, so I unplugged it.  Now the power 
>> button won't even work.  Did I fry the power supply?
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> Power button won't work as in it doesn't come on again ?
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> I'd double check all the connections because of the mother swap.
> And any voltage settings - Peter ?
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> The sole purpose of my life is, apparently, to test my sanity.
> Scott
> Netscape 7.0 on Win 98 SE
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It won't come on again.  I rechecked the connectors, and the voltage is 
115 like always.  The power supply is 70W (!), so I will just look 
around for a crappy used one with 70 or so watts.  I'm sure they are 
like $5.