-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. In my server, I have an accent pc which I got about 2 years ago, back when there was that last big sale of the accent pc and sa units. My server was running as usual, when I heard clicks from my accent pc's external speaker. This was during the night, and I found in the morning that I was getting no speech. So, I plugged in a pair of headphones which I know to be good, and only heard a quiet hissing sound, instead of the soft wine that the accent makes whenever it has power going to it. I then turned the volume knob all the way up, but no change. I then tried to reboot the pc, and power it off for about 10 minutes, but each time, when the power was turned off and then back on, all I got were soft clicks from the accent, instead of the usual "accent ready" message whenever the unit is reset. This was when I powered the machine off and on of course, there was no change in the soft hissing sound during the reboot, and no accent ready message. Also, speakup failed to find the synth during the probe. I then opened the machine up, removed the accent, checked if there were any loose chips on the board, and for anything else unusual, but all looks fine. I then reinserted the card back into the machine, but again got no "accent ready" when I powered back up. I powered on and off a few more times with the machine open, and got "accent ready" message a couple of times, but by the time the kernel had loaded, and speakup was probing for the accent, the familiar soft wine of the accent was again replaced by the hissing sound, and speakup failed to find the synth, as it had done when I rebooted and powered off and then on again the first time around. I have also tried the accent in another machine with an ISA slot, and didn't get the accent ready message there either. Since I did get the accent to say "accent ready" a couple of times at power up, I am led to conclude that my accent is not dead, but that there seems to be a bad connection somewhere, most likely on the accent board. However, I don't know what else to check for. Any suggestions on what to look for would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance. BTW, this isn't a dip switch issue, since I never changed those after getting the board, and this as I said happened when the server was running, and powered on. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCzwwE7s9z/XlyUyARAm8AAKDAKsJ9zp5XXMM2v0LFjPGJTl9SigCgr3dB +KGoYF3Otu/TImlHakvUaKY= =UKhO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
