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From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
To: Slim <jallen@aviating.com>
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Subject: Re: Hardware Mystery
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	Please ask questions in -questions. -Newbies is not for technical
type questions.

	On a side note - your power supply is most likely going bad. Check
the wattage.

	Rick


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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Slim wrote:

> I doubt this has any thing to do with FreeBSD directly, but here's the
> problem:
> 
> I recently acquired FreeBSD, and thought it would be a good idea to
> install it and do my learning on a separate spare machine.  I had a
> recently retired P133 sitting around, and that was pressed into service.
> 
> I installed FreeBSD on this machine, and since then, it has been
> difficult to boot up.  When the machine is turned on, it whirrs the CD
> drive, the HD whirrs a bit, then stops.  The signal light on the monitor
> doesn't come on, either.  After any number of re-sets and re-starts, it
> will eventually work, the signal light goes on, and the boot up is
> completed.
> 
> My guess is that it is a hardware problem completely unrelated to
> installing FreeBSD. I do not recall seeing this behavior in the past, on
> this or any other machine.  Any ideas/clues/suggestions. etc?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Jim Allen
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