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On 02/10/12 16:13, Peter M Le Mare wrote: > On 27/09/12 07:36, Martin Gautier wrote: >> >> On 26/09/12 19:33, Peter M Le Mare wrote: >>> >>> On 26/09/12 17:16, bad apple wrote: >>>> On 26/09/12 14:32, Peter M Le Mare wrote: > For three days over the weekend my whole computer closed down and > would not re boot. If I switched off the mains and waited for the pwr > LED to go out and switch on, the whole computer started to boot up for > 5 secs and then stopped dead and the on switch at the front of the > case would not work. After asking online for help about the board > nothing helped. I suspected a corrupt bios or the battery near it and > online they thought it was the power pack. I even checked the on > switch to see if it was jammed on and merely switching the computer > off as soon as it started. Switch is OK. Two days later when I was > putting back the mini switch board it has somehow corrected it self > and booted up. > However twice it it has closed down with a momentary error notice that > of system error and a second later closing down quickly and then not > rebooting. It now seems to be stable again but again I twice got > system errors "internal" mentioning exfat fuse executable path > /sben/mount.exfat. It said report it to Ubunto so I clicked on that > but have no idea whether it is related to the closing down and not > rebooting: these times it did not close down. > As all the internal or built in hardware lights up I don't think it is > power pack. I cannot afford to upgrade my whole computer and there is > only ONE new motherboard with an am2 socket I don't want to renew even > this if it is something other than an intermittent fault on the M/board. > Anyone else had something like this? Can you help? > Wow, you are really unlucky it seems when it comes to computers - yours seems to hate you. There is definitely something physically wrong with your system. I routinely put together Core I systems for customers for ~£300: you can do it for less if you have a case, dvd, hard drives, keyboard/mouse and monitor to re-use. Obviously money is a problem for everyone these days, but sometimes not upgrading is a false economy. I sit in front of my main workstation for 18+ hours a day, every day, and biting the bullet a year or so back and upgrading to a full-on monster system was expensive, but the best investment I have ever made. Your AM2 system is a relic and essentially a space-heater that just happens to do some mathematical calculations every now and then. Very slowly. When it feels like turning on. Chief, buy yourself a low end gigabyte motherboard, a Core I3 and 8-16Gb of DDR3 RAM and never look back. You'll thank me later. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq