On Friday 05 December 2003 04:05 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Today I had a complete computer failure, nothing, not even a bios boot
screen.
I downloaded a whole batch of emails, dealt with them, and went away
leaving d4x downloading a file.
When I came back, nothing but a blank screen, I
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 7:18 pm, Alan Dunford wrote:
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 6:43 pm, Richard Urwin wrote:
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
UK domestic is 240v can vary between 230/250 v(meaning it's allowed)
but I have never experienced in my lifetime much variation
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 10:26 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
Actually I thought the UK and most all of Europe was 250v.
The US probly would be too, but you need to remember we invented
the light bulb :) And that was so long ago, and with competing
AC and DC distributions in the beginning,
Derek Jennings wrote
And no. We do not use 250V in Europe.
The UK is nominally 240V 50Hz, while continental Europe is mostly nominally
220V 50Hz
The reasonably short lengths of transmission lines, few electrical storms, and
very tight regulation of the generating industry here means that the
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 10:30 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
However I would
agree that we in UK don't get much variable voltage, provided your
domestic property isn't either in some remote country setting or
perhaps sited next to some lonesome little industrial estate, your
gonna get reliable
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 11:35, John Richard Smith wrote:
Lanman wrote:
John; It's continous. But the components in the power supply
onlyaccept what they can manageor what they're rated for. The battery
keeps this feed stable, and as a basic nature of electricity, only
supplies what is
On Monday 08 December 2003 10:26 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
Ohh you got me going there.
As with so many other of Edison's 'inventions' the light bulb
was not invented by Edison at all.
The city of Newcastle in England had public electric lighting
before Edison 'invented' the lightbulb.
What
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
UK domestic is 240v can vary between 230/250 v(meaning it's allowed) but
I have never experienced in my lifetime much variation from 240v
50cycles/min.
Yep, 240V, I just measured it (239V at this moment.) I strangely remembered
that it
On Monday 08 December 2003 05:26 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
DJ Ohh you got me going there.
DJ As with so many other of Edison's 'inventions' the light bulb was not
invented DJ by Edison at all.
DJ The city of Newcastle in England had public electric lighting before
Edison DJ 'invented' the
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 6:43 pm, Richard Urwin wrote:
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
UK domestic is 240v can vary between 230/250 v(meaning it's allowed) but
I have never experienced in my lifetime much variation from 240v
50cycles/min.
Cycles per second ?
--
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:29:10 +
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 10:30 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
However I would
agree that we in UK don't get much variable voltage, provided
your domestic property isn't either in some remote country
setting or perhaps
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 7:24 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Carroll Grigsby wrote:
John:
Neither one. The first one is just a PSU; the second one is
probably way too big for your needs. (But then, I don't know what
your needs are, do I?) That puppy should be able to back up five
or six
Carroll Grigsby wrote
John:
Oops. Ring main? British English != American English. British Wiring
Practices != American Wiring Practices. Oh well, press on...
Oh , It's no big deal,
Power enters your property to a junction/fuse box where it is split into
a number of fuse protected ciruits
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Friday 05 December 2003 08:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Seems to be the power supply , so I'm after a new one,
hopefully more reliable one, but maybe I'm going to have to
think more seriously about surge protectors if they are any
good.Either that or buy a spare.
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 9:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Tom Brinkman wrote:
You can check line power easily with a VOhm meter,
true, but, a) how to get your meter which has DC up to 20 V as your
closest option to read acurately, b) sorting out the pins on the output
plug from PSU.
a) I use
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 9:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
No problem there it seems , so far all of those available in UK
seem to be identicle.
John - just a thought. Overclockers tend to need to be ultracareful.
Have you tried looking at overclockers.com to see if they
sell/recommend
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 12:16 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Richard Urwin wrote:
b) The truth is out there. Put atx pinout into your favorite search
engine. There seem to be plenty of hits, top of the list was
http://xtronics.com/reference/atx_pinout.htm. Don't stare at the
background for
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 9:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
No problem there it seems , so far all of those available in UK
seem to be identicle.
John - just a thought. Overclockers tend to need to be ultracareful.
Have you tried looking at overclockers.com to see if
On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 12:42:50 +
JRS wrote:
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~snip*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
| Clearly , it's about whether I want to,
| a) UPS my attic power supply, running 3 computers, and surge protect
| only the one.
| b) surge protect all 4 computers, no ups.
| c) just accept the risks.
|
| But
On 12/7/2003 at 3:22 PM John Richard Smith wrote:
Lanman wrote:
John; The basic purpose of a UPS is to filter or condition the
electrical power which your computer
receives. Typically, your computer runs off of the battery inside
the UPS, and a charger keeps the
battery charged from the wall
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 12:42 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
We had a lot of problems where clocks etc seemed fine, where I
believe that the problem was very short-lived power drops. Even
cheap surge protectors seem to help in that case.
Is that so, could be then that is
Lanman wrote:
John; It's continous. But the components in the power supply
onlyaccept what they can manageor what they're rated for. The battery
keeps this feed stable, and as a basic nature of electricity, only
supplies what is needed at the time. Since it's a batteryafter all, it
simply
On Sunday 07 December 2003 09:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
You can check line power easily with a VOhm meter,
true, but, a) how to get your meter which has DC up to 20 V as
your closest option to read acurately, b) sorting out the pins
on the output plug from PSU.
just stick the
leads
Tom Brinkman wrote:
So you might'a guessed where I'm going with this. GET AN UPS,
specially for servers or any system running 24/7. 500VA is very
suitable for even the most high powered workstations. It's also
usually a good price point. My APC BackUPS/500 was $120 at
Wal*Mart about 6
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 2:44 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
I don't
know the situation in the UK, but here in the US power is 110v
per leg. Two legs on the same circuit (what you refer to as a
ring?) yields 220v for things like electric clothes dryers,
range, ovens, and furnaces. Usually those are
On Monday 08 December 2003 12:27 am, Richard Urwin wrote:
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 2:44 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote:
I don't
know the situation in the UK, but here in the US power is
110v per leg. Two legs on the same circuit (what you refer to
as a ring?) yields 220v for things like electric
On Friday 05 Dec 2003 8:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Seems to be the power supply , so I'm after a new one, hopefully
more reliable one, but maybe I'm going to have to think more
seriously about surge protectors if they are any good.Either that
or buy a spare.
John, Argos do a really
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 1:57 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
On Friday 05 December 2003 03:37 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
whack
Turns out that my powersupply has failed.
I substituted a know to work powersupply and she booted.
Put the old one back and she fails.
My guess is that the 3.3v
On Friday 05 December 2003 08:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Seems to be the power supply , so I'm after a new one,
hopefully more reliable one, but maybe I'm going to have to
think more seriously about surge protectors if they are any
good.Either that or buy a spare.
John
Get an
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 12:07 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 1:57 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
John:
It might be a good time to consider a good UPS, too.
Agreed - I use one on my box. However, the only ones that do a
tidy shutdown, as far as I can
Anne Wilson wrote:
http://www.cclcomputers.biz/acatalog/
They range from
*300W ATX TUV Power Supply* Ref: PSU0001
**Online Price £14.38*£16.90 Including VAT at 17.5%*
To,
*Liebert 2.2Kva Powersure Interactive Mini Tower* Ref: UPS0006
World Class Power Protection And Communications For
On Saturday 06 December 2003 10:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
http://www.cclcomputers.biz/acatalog/
They range from
*300W ATX TUV Power Supply* Ref: PSU0001
**Online Price £14.38*£16.90 Including VAT at 17.5%*
To,
*Liebert 2.2Kva Powersure Interactive Mini Tower*
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 3:48 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
http://www.cclcomputers.biz/acatalog/
They range from
*300W ATX TUV Power Supply* Ref: PSU0001
**Online Price £14.38*£16.90 Including VAT at 17.5%*
To,
*Liebert 2.2Kva Powersure Interactive Mini Tower* Ref:
Today I had a complete computer failure, nothing, not even a bios boot
screen.
I downloaded a whole batch of emails, dealt with them, and went away
leaving d4x downloading a file.
When I came back, nothing but a blank screen, I touched a key, and a
mandrake boot script appears, hung at fsck,
John Richard Smith wrote:
Today I had a complete computer failure, nothing, not even a bios boot
screen.
I downloaded a whole batch of emails, dealt with them, and went away
leaving d4x downloading a file.
When I came back, nothing but a blank screen, I touched a key, and a
mandrake boot
Robin Turner wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
Today I had a complete computer failure, nothing, not even a bios
boot screen.
I downloaded a whole batch of emails, dealt with them, and went away
leaving d4x downloading a file.
When I came back, nothing but a blank screen, I touched a key, and
Robin Turner wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
Today I had a complete computer failure, nothing, not even a bios
boot screen.
I downloaded a whole batch of emails, dealt with them, and went
away
leaving d4x downloading a file.
When I came back, nothing but a blank screen, I touched a
I cann't even get into bios, that is the problem. By flash I guess you
mean reset the bios and make it redetect ?
John
I might add that I do have power supply , it seems like everything
that needs it is getting power,though since I cannot get into bios I
cannot tell what may be dead.
If I had
I cann't even get into bios, that is the problem. By flash I guess you
mean reset the bios and make it redetect ?
John
I might add that I do have power supply , it seems like everything
that needs it is getting power,though since I cannot get into bios I
cannot tell what may be dead.
If I had
On Friday 05 December 2003 09:05 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Today I had a complete computer failure, nothing, not even a bios boot
screen.
I downloaded a whole batch of emails, dealt with them, and went away
leaving d4x downloading a file.
When I came back, nothing but a blank screen, I
On Friday 05 December 2003 10:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Robin Turner wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
Today I had a complete computer failure, nothing, not even a bios
boot screen.
I downloaded a whole batch of emails, dealt with them, and went
away
leaving d4x
On Friday 05 December 2003 11:14 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
I cann't even get into bios, that is the problem. By flash I guess you
mean reset the bios and make it redetect ?
John
I might add that I do have power supply , it seems like everything
that needs it is getting power,though
On Friday 05 December 2003 11:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
I cann't even get into bios, that is the problem. By flash I guess you
mean reset the bios and make it redetect ?
John
I might add that I do have power supply , it seems like everything
that needs it is getting power,though
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 03:53, John Richard Smith wrote:
et wrote:
On Friday 05 December 2003 11:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
I cann't even get into bios, that is the problem. By flash I guess you
mean reset the bios and make it redetect ?
John
I might add that I do have power supply ,
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:59:44 +1300
Sharrea Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 03:53, John Richard Smith wrote:
et wrote:
On Friday 05 December 2003 11:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
I cann't even get into bios, that is the problem. By flash I guess
youmean reset the bios
My graphics card , gforce3 has a small fan on it and it's hardly
turning at all. I bet that is the problem, can one buy replacements?
John
yes. send us a picture of the fan you get for it. however, while I
ain't sure
about your particular card, I do know some fans have a control
circuit that
Sharrea Day wrote:
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 03:53, John Richard Smith wrote:
et wrote:
On Friday 05 December 2003 11:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
I cann't even get into bios, that is the problem. By flash I guess you
mean reset the bios and make it redetect ?
John
I might add that I do have
Dimitar Haralanov wrote:
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:59:44 +1300
Sharrea Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 03:53, John Richard Smith wrote:
et wrote:
On Friday 05 December 2003 11:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
I cann't even get into bios, that is the problem. By flash I guess
John Richard Smith wrote:
Dimitar Haralanov wrote:
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:59:44 +1300
Sharrea Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 03:53, John Richard Smith wrote:
et wrote:
On Friday 05 December 2003 11:49 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
I cann't even get into bios, that is the
On Friday 05 December 2003 03:37 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
whack
Turns out that my powersupply has failed.
I substituted a know to work powersupply and she booted.
Put the old one back and she fails.
My guess is that the 3.3v line is supplying under voltage.
Just goes to show that
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