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Special Forums Hardware Hardware issue advice Post 302481634 by DougyC on Saturday 18th of December 2010 05:02:03 PM
Old 12-18-2010
Hardware issue advice

Hi all,

I've got an issue with my PC and was wondering what you thought might be the issue.

The problem manifests it'self in two ways (at least I'm assuming it's related).

1. I turn the power on at the wall and press the on button, but nothing happens. I have to wait for several seconds to minutes before the button works.

2. The PC will suddenly turn off. Every thing will look fine then suddenly, bang, all off, just the sound of the fans winding down.

It's definitely not an OS issue. The turning off has happened during the POST and with a Linux live disc running.

My thoughts are that it's probably a PSU issue but I've not ruled out motherboard or anything else as yet.

I don't think it's a heat issue as the turning off can take anything from seconds to hours to happen.

What do you guy's think?

Any advice is most appreciated.
 

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x_buttontest(6) 						  Games and Demos						   x_buttontest(6)

NAME
x_buttontest - Xview demonstration and test program for SunButtons SYNOPSIS
/usr/demo/BUTTONBOX/x_buttontest DESCRIPTION
x_buttontest is an Xview application that displays a window with thirty two buttons, corresponding to those on the SunButtons buttonbox. To determine if the buttonbox has been set up correctly, select the Diagnostic button on the panel. If the buttonbox is functional and cor- rectly interfaced, each of the buttons will light in sequence for about 1 second. Then "OK." is sent to the standard output of the demo program. x_buttontest is now in its (default) interactive mode. Pressing a button on the buttonbox highlights the corresponding button on the screen. Additionally, x_buttontest sends a BDIOBUTLITE ioctl to the buttonbox in response to each key press and key release, so that the button light is illuminated while the button is held down. If the serial communications become confused, as can happen when both the buttonbox and the dialbox are operated at the same time, one or more button lights may remain on after the button is released. Clicking on the Reset button on the panel will unconditionally turn all the button lights off. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Architecture |SPARC | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
bdconfig(1M), attributes(5), x_dialtest(6), bd(7M), streamio(7I) SunOS 5.10 1 Jan 1997 x_buttontest(6)
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