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 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
Agreed - I use one on my box. However, the only ones that do a tidy shutdown, as far as I can see, are the APC ones, and unfortunately they are rather expensive. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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