[For the time being, I'm withdrawing this request for help: see below]
On 18-Dec-2011 Adam Bower wrote:
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 05:20:41PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
I have been having problems with a couple of old machines, desktop boxes, which both recently (within a few days of each other) went into "won't switch on" mode.
Just how old are these machines? What is their hardware specification? What kind of keyboard is it?
One machine dates from the mid-1990s (that's the one with the zapped PSU); the other (with the keyboard issue) from 2001. In both cases the keyboard is not USB, but PS/2.
Does anyone have any ideas about the possible source of this glitch, and how to set about fixing it?
If relevent, the Linux version is SuSE 7,2 from 2001, with kernal 2.4.4.
I think that there is a good chance this could be relevant, are we talking about a machine with a usb keyboard?
Adam
As above: No (though your reasons could be interesting). As it happens, when I transplanted the machine from the kitchen table to its usual place, after plugging all the cables back in and switching on the above keyboard issue had disappeared, so (with luck) things should be OK now (but don't quote me within the hearing of that machine).
Thanks for the comments, Adam. Ted.
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