Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

[Alex Schuster]

Volker Armin Hemmann writes:

> sounds like a power problem.
>
> Either psu is gone bad (get a new one)

Well, I got three old ones instead :)

> or your mainboard's power circuitry gone bad (if replacement of psu does not
> help, get a new one).

It did not help :(  Too bad, I probably need a new mainboard. And I 
cannot get one before monday evening, I have to go to a wedding tomorrow 
(not mine) and I doubt I will have time to find a hardware store there.

> But first thing first: disconnect your hdds! No reason to risk them.

I did that soon. I already had trouble with one two weeks ago, it had 
bad blocks on the home partition. The replacement drive also had bad 
blocks, I had to get yet another one. It's a good thing to have recent 
backups :)

And there, it just crashed while in the BIOS setup.

	Wonko