hardware question, power button not working on system.

[Sina Bahram]

Those things usually have 100,000 dollar warrantees on them, so you might
want to look into that. Although I'm afraid it might only be for direct
value and not potential value.

Take care,
Sina


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From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Gabriel Vega
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 5:58 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: hardware question, power button not working on system.

was this plugged in to a real power serge protector aor just a power bar of
outlets. there's a chance your machine is gone do to a serge.  
I just lost a p3 866 due to this issue. I had it plugged in to power bar,
which I was asured that could handle serges by a store person and now my p3
866 is a gon er.
On Jul 2, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote:

> hello list,
> I have a problem.
> The power button on my linux system doesn't work.
> I used to just leave it on like 24-seven, but, that doesn't really 
> work, because the power went off, and now I can't turn it on.
> I opened the computer, and I see the wire that goes to the button that 
> I could push to reboot the computer, running to the mother board. 
> then, I found the wire that runs to the power button.
> Its a little tiney rectangular plug. It looks like it will fit over 
> two pins, well, I know it will. There is a little formation of pins in 
> a square shape rite above where the reboot chord is plugged in.
> Is that where that should go?
> If so, how should it plug in?
> If not, where should I plug it in?
> Thanks,
> ~~TheCreator~~
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> http://tysplace.shaned.net
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