Re: Multia woes

["David R. McGown" <dmcgown megacats com>]

I had the exact same thing happen.  When I opened the case, I noticed scorch 
marks on one socket of a power connector.  I figured that any problem that 
would have pulled enough current to overheat and scorch the plastic connector 
is probably fatal, so I havn't investigated further.

David

> Hi all,
> 
>   I bought a Multia not so long ago off of onsale.  After putting 64MB of
> RAM (true parity TI),an external 2GB drive and RedHat 5.2 on it, I found it
> would reboot spontaneously.  At first, I believed it to be an aging battery
> and so replaced it.  Now, it is still doing the same thing.  It just blanks
> and reboots, with some weird, very quiet popping noises from inside the
> case.  Times between reboots vary from 5 to 35 minutes.  Is this a heat
> related problem?  I have the machine in the vertical stand, and it's not
> near any other equipment that produces a great deal of heat.  Is my box
> doomed to be unreliable?
> 
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