[07:48] <dscassel> DarwinSurvivor: Mostly planning events and an occasional bit of administrivia.
[08:14] <DarwinSurvivor> dscassel: ok
[13:47] <BluesKaj> Hiyas all
[18:09] <khoover> hey guys, been having a problem with one of my other laptops; I hit the power button, power light turns on, nothing happens for a good 10 seconds, then the computer reboots - maybe half a second of power-off - stays on for another 10 seconds, and then crashes.
[18:09] <khoover> er, shuts down
[18:10] <khoover> no bios interface, no boot loader shows; the screen remains fully powered down.
[18:19] <BluesKaj> khoover, does actually go thru a shutdown or does it just quit
[18:20] <BluesKaj> hmm, bad RAM ? .. just speculating
[18:22] <khoover> BluesKaj, possibly, but I managed to get it started once, and things looked fine. except for the fact that i still had yet to fix my breaking of sudo.
[18:22] <khoover> and it just quits, like, if i yanked the power cord
[18:23] <BluesKaj> but the screen stays lit , khoover ?
[18:23] <khoover> the screen never starts. it's off throughout the process
[18:23] <BluesKaj> oops sorry
[18:24] <BluesKaj> misread your post above about the scrn
[18:26] <BluesKaj> I think it may be the PSU , but failsafe triggers shut the PSU down in case of hardware failure...I had the graphics section die on my mobo , and as soon as I installed anew pci gpu , all was fine ...as an example
[18:27] <BluesKaj> it's a difficult problem tracking down hardware failure