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Date:	Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:44:38 -0700
From:	Tom Brown <thomabrown@gmail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: blinking power led -Solved!

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I finally hit a key while it was blinking, and it resumed. The BIOS had
been set to suspend after 30 min of no activity. The disk was running,
but no keyboard, so ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

Steven Levine wrote:
> In <46E216C0.7010606@gmail.com>, on 09/07/07
> at 08:29 PM, Tom Brown said:
>
> Hi,
>
>> I have been trying to do a full R/W scan via DFSee on the 250 GB drive.
>> Jan's docs say this is data-safe.
>
> It is.
>
>> It hangs after a variable amount of
>> time.
>
> This is a hardware issue. Which version of dfsee are you running and how
> did you boot it? If you are running from the FreeDOS bootable CD, you are
> running pretty close to the hardware, so there's not much to fail other
> than hardware.
>
>> I moved the drive to the secondary IDE channel and tried again.
>> This time, when it stopped, I noticed that the power on led on the front
>> panel was blinking. I could restart the system via CAD, which I could
>> not do before AFAIR.
>
>> Does a blinking power led have any special significance? Beeps on
>> bootup, I know about, but a blinking power led?
>
> Assuming that the LED is driven by the power supply, this is probably
> something in the PS logic trying to tell you something. It could also be
> something the MB hardware is doing to report a problem with the PS
> voltages.
>
> Steven
>

--
Tom Brown, Catherder
thombrown at gmail dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E., & SDAA

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