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 powercuts can easily damage powersupply > units. Not only that, but it's the second unit, known to me,to go > the same way in my locality, in the last month. Seems like Milton > Keynes is becoming the powersurge capital ok the uk. > > > Anyway, thanks, for your help. > > Now for a new PSU. > > John John: It might be a good time to consider a good UPS, too. It will allow you to keep right on working through brief power outages; for longer ones, the UPS will do a clean system shutdown without any effort on your part. An additional advantage is that the better ones provide a constant supply voltage to the PC which will prolong the life of your PSU and monitor, as well as filtering some of the extraneous spikes that come down the line. -- cmg
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