[mike@procario.org: Re: [wplug] tripping power supply]

[Michael Procario]

I have gotten lots of suggestions. Thanks. It is a 300 watt supply. I
added a parallel port zip recently, but I would not expect that to
increase the current draw much. I have been running with one hard drive,
one CD-RW, on-board LAN, riser card modem, 256 MB. The external zip has 
its own power supply. 

I have been running all day since the last trip with the case open. I
guess it has been 10 hours since the last trip. I have not figured out to 
check my tempertures yet. I am running Mandrake 8.2. I found some
Windows diagnostics on the motherboard driver CD but they did work when
I tried them in Windows 98. 

Somebody suggested thermal cycling. I am assuming a better supply would
fix this. 

Mike


On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:03:59PM -0500, William Powell wrote:
> Carefully check any unused drive power cables aren't flopping around and 
> hitting some component on the MB or other hardware inside the case.
> 
> Bill Powell
> 
> Bryce Lynch wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Phil Walther, Jr. wrote:
> >
> > 
> >
> >>ATX style systems have been known to do this.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >My own system does this as well, usually if there's a blow to the casing
> >or if a cable is accidentally tugged inside.  It seems to have something
> >to do with wires connected to the mainboard but I've not sat down to
> >experiment with it (mostly because I don't know if it'll fry an entire
> >system or not).
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