In message <14732.25335.634412.534489@phaduka.neurotica.com>
          Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com> wrote:

> On August 5, Nino Margetic wrote:
> > 
> > When I connect the keyboard, mouse, net, monitor and mains cables
> > and press the power switch the system (and the lights) comes up for
> > about 2 seconds and then everything powers off. When I press the
> > power switch again (to switch the system off), again the lights
> > briefly come up (less than a second) and then it dies again. I have
> > tried to power it on without the keyboard and mouse and I get the
> > same behaviour.
> 
>   Dunno about this particular machine, but a friend of mine has an
> AlphaStation 200 4/166 that exhibited the *exact* same symptoms.  The
> problem was the chassis fan was disconnected.  Apparently it's got
> some sort of sensor that won't let the machine power up without the
> fan.

Just what I was going to say... the fan could also have gone bad, rather
than being disconnected. We've had to replace the chassis fan on several
Alphastation 200/250 systems, which showed the same behaviour.

G.
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