On Sun 05 Jul, Dr Peter Young wrote: > > On 5 Jul 2009 Matthew Thompson <mt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > In message <4A4F85B6.10307@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> My Iyo Panther has been misbehaving, and I imagine that it's the power > >> supply dying. It has been occasionally hanging at start-up, needing the > >> reset button the get it going. Today the networking seems to have died > >> totally; I can connect to the internet via this Windows PC (though the > >> Orpheus servers seem to have been up and down a bit) but from the Iyo I > >> can't connect (message about not finding DNS Servers), can't ping the > >> router, can't print to the network printer. > > > I had problems Saturday too with Orpheus internet connection, it was > > very hit and miss, but both my Iyonix and PC would not connect to the > > internet. > > I think I've found the source of the problem, as far as it applies > here, anyway. We went out for a brief local walk, before > S(WMBO)+(WILAC) got glued to Wimbledon, and, behold, in a neighbouring > street, three holes in the ground and a trench, all now filled in, > belonging to BT. I had reached Richard @ Orpheus by phone yesterday, > and he had said that the symptoms pointed to a line problem, and he > does seem to be right. > > Now, the really odd bit ... I'd just finished transferring Messenger > and its friends and relations to VRPC via a memory stick (memo: next > time remember to put them all in a zip first!), and was beginning to > feel reasonably at home with Thunderbird, when there was a sudden > burst of activity of the light on the router which belongs to the Iyo. > Crossing my fingers, I fetched with NetFetch, and down came all the > messages! :-) > > I have no explanation as to why the Windows machines could connect > intermittently yesterday and the Iyo couldn't, or why the Iyo's access > both failed and came back in the middle of a session, as they did, and > not at start-up. Can anyone think of what BT might have done to > explain this? > > >> I'm no expert, but from what I've read, this seems to point to the power > >> supply. Now, considering that I'm an electronic idiot, where do people > >> suggest I get a new one from (CJE?), am I likely to be able to fit it > >> without mucking up the computer, and are there idiot-proof instructions > >> anywhere? > > > I got my Iyonix power supply replacement from CJE , so they will be > > definitely able to help there. > > Now, some more advice, please. Do I get a new power supply now, in > case this is a false dawn, or is it all explicable as a line problem? I do have a vested interest! But I can think of no reason why a dodgy line would affect one computer and not another when connected through a router. The words 'false dawn' was what sprung to my mind when reading the top part of your post. An intermitant fault is my bet! Chris Evans -- CJE Micro's / 4D 'RISC OS Specialists' Telephone: 01903 523222 Fax: 01903 523679 chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/ 78 Brighton Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 2EN The most beautiful thing anyone can wear, is a smile! --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support