[iyonix-support] Re: Power supply? Probably solved?

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

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