Mandrake on an old Packard Bell

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Power supplies on ATX do not shut off immediately when pressed, you have 
to hold them for 6 seconds. Also, you may have a setting in BIOS that 
said to power on AC after AC loss, that could explain something goofy 
there. My experience is that power supplies either go or they don't. 
Make sure the button is not sticking either. I once had a lady that 
could not understand why her floppy drive and power button kept frying, 
turns out her dog was relieving himself on the pc when noone was 
looking, lol.

Timothy Domst wrote:

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> 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.