Wake up and stumble towards the refridge to get a Tab and milk for my usual bowl of cheerios. Even thru the fog of just waking I notice silence. The scream of dual Dynatron heatsinks on one of the Arima dual socket 8356 do not "greet" me. I walk over to the shelve and notice 2 machines running and 2 not. I check the clock and other machines to determine that the power had not gone out while I slept. The Arima powers up but the Vista machine, a Opteron 1354 that is the wireless bridge for 2 of the other machines does not. I play around and decide I have lost a PSU. Do some swapping around and sure enough the Vista bridge comes alive with a new PSU.
Fortunately my daughter had gotten me a box of miscellaneous PC parts off of FreeCycle and one item had been a 430 watt Apower PSU. An obvious cheap PSU but it works and will hopefully continue to work until I can order a new and better PSU next week. So all is back up and running, and screaming. Need to find a fan controller for 4 pin and slow those Dyantrons down. Nothing in BIOS to do it. Why 4 pin HS fan and 4 pin MB connectors and no way to control fan speed??
But the question remains why was the Arima off when I got up. It is set to power up after losing and regaining power and it did power up when I turned PSU off then back on. 4 machines on same circuit and same surge protector. No signs of circuit losing power. A PC not set to power back on after power loss was still running as well as a second Arima dual 8356. How would loosing a PSU on another machine power down another machine. There is no sign of any damage from loosing the PSU on the bridge machine.
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Originally Posted by D_A
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