Re: System downtime wednesday for maintainance.

[Jason Smethers <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     The systems are up again except for pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org.  apcupsd
>     has been integrated and tested.
>
>     There's nothing wrong with pkgbox's disks but the motherboard failed
>     to power up.  In fact, both my Asus A8N SLI-Delux machines (apollo and
>     pkgbox) failed to power up.  The green standby LED works but no fans,
>     no main power, no nothing.  I've determined that it isn't the power supply
>     and it still didn't boot up with all the peripherals and cards removed
>     so it looks like a motherboard problem.
>
>     After some fiddling.. wiggling various things, I managed to get apollo
>     to power up, but pkgbox is dead.  I am going to replace both motherboards
>     so pkgbox will probably be dead for the rest of the week.

I've had similar problems with the Asus A8N-SLI Delux and Premium 
motherboards. After about 6 months, they would not longer start without 
reseting the CMOS. Soon after I could only get them to start after 
temporarily grounding the green power-on wire connected to the ATX power 
 connector till the fans spin, and then hitting the case's power switch.

I also used a power supply of another A8N-SLI Delux to test these 
motherboards. After transferring the power supply back to the original 
motherboard, that board immediately developed the same issues.

Replacing all the power supplies with brand new ATX version 2.2 power 
supplies seems to have fixed it so far, though I have had one of them 
spontaneously turn off a few times as if the motherboard had overloaded 
the power supply.

This seems to be a common problem with the A8N boards.

- Jason