<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/3 David Whyte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.whyte@gmail.com">david.whyte@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Ian Clark <<a href="mailto:mrrooster@gmail.com">mrrooster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Instability and random crashing? Sounds like either memory or PSU to me.<br>
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</div>I did do a memtest but the output displayed on the monitor was all<br>
garbled for whatever reason. Also, I ran a live CD but it wouldn't<br>
boot very far and left me with a continuous 'segfault' message every 5<br>
seconds.</blockquote><div><br>Something's definatly not right by the sounds of it.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Now that I can't even power on the machine I think the only thing I<br>
can do from here is get a new PSU.</blockquote><div><br>If you don't mind taking things apart, whip the cover of your PSU and have a look inside, it's quite possible you'll find there are some blown capacitors in there (they'll have domed tops and be covered in an icky looking brown gunk.) this is what'd happened to mine.<br>
<br>However, PSUs do deal with mains voltages, so if you're at all unsure DO NOT DO THIS, you can get some nasty voltages in there, and there are capacitors that will store charge for several hours after it was last plugged in.<br>
<br>Ian<br><br></div></div><br>