[SORTA SOLVED:] Re: recover from a bad F16 install

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Tue Mar 20 22:29:20 UTC 2012


On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Paul Allen Newell wrote:

> I hadn't thought of the power supply as I assumed that if that were the 
> problem, everything would go down rather than selective components as it 
> got worse and worse. Took a look on eBay and pwoer supplies and 
> certainly cheaper than motherboards --- I'm seeing $60-$90 range. I can 
> see a whole lot of xw8000 stuff and it doesn't look like any of them 
> have a bid.

If the power supply almost works,
you might get a running system by taking something out.

> Given its age and that I have two other older machines (HP x4000 ... 
> both happily on F16 Xfce), I'm still thinking that I'm better off 
> putting any money into a new 64bit system. But I'm going to think about 
> it for a day as "under $100" warrants consideration.
>
> If I knew someone with a spare that I could test to verify that it was, 
> in fact, the power supply (or motherboard or whatever), it would certain 
> make the gamble better.

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Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class,
whom I teach not to run with scissors,
that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword."  --  Lily


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