On 19/11/06, Hugo Mills <hugo@???> wrote:
> I've got a (nearly) new mini-ITX motherboard, made by Jetway, for
> my media box. It seems to be having some trouble:
>
> On Saturday morning, the machine crashed. Nothing appeared in the
> logs. On trying to restart it on Saturday night, the machine wouldn't
> come back up at all (no POST), but the case fan started when the
> machine was plugged in (which it normally wouldn't do). After
> unplugging everything from the back of the box and reapplying power,
> it finally came back and booted without a problem.
>
> This morning, it did the same thing, and so far hasn't come back,
> despite being unplugged from everything for some time. The only thing
> that seems to be "working" is the case fan -- which is permanently on
> when the machine has power.
>
> I'll be speaking to the vendor tomorrow about this, but has anyone
> else seen this sort of behaviour? Is the motherboard completely
> shagged? If so, why did it run fine for 12 hours or so last night
> after its first failure?
>
> Hugo.
>
Sounds like a faulty PSU to me.