Mandrake on an old Packard Bell

[Timothy Domst]

On Monday, December 22, 2003, at 08:12  AM, Cyber Source wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>> On Thursday, December 18, 2003, at 10:10  AM, green_man wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Timothy Domst wrote, On 12/15/03 8:00 PM:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Power button won't work as in it doesn't come on again ?
>>>
>>> I'd double check all the connections because of the mother swap.
>>> And any voltage settings - Peter ?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> The sole purpose of my life is, apparently, to test my sanity.
>>> Scott
>>> Netscape 7.0 on Win 98 SE
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>
>

Well no dog here, but I'd like to relieve myself on the thing.  In fact 
I have abandoned the cheap route, and I am in the process of buying 
mobo, case, fans, cd, hd, etc. for a real working one that I can use as 
a server.  Which leads me to another question;

I have a nice big Apple CRT monitor, is there a switch I can buy that 
is good with Linux and will switch between computers (Apple G4 and SuSE 
w/Gigabyte mobo) using the same monitor?