[heero_yuy]

Desktop PC's on the blink: Thought it was the power supply so I got a replacement but the machine still won't power up. I bridged the "power on" line on the PSU connector to force a power up, which happened, but the machine won't even start POST so something's gone down in the power control and reset circuits. It's all in one big chip so it looks like a new build is on the cards re-using some of what I currently have.

Not really complaining as I built the PC over 15 years ago and it's run 8 hours a day and more recently 24/7 as a media server. That's around 50,000 hours. Pretty good for domestic electronics.

OS is going to be a decision, I'd already been toying with making a move to Linux so maybe with a new build now is the time.