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 sc
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 var
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 p
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 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'
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 i
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.
> W
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
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 reliab
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 s
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 beginn
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 elec
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
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 ye
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
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 cont
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 t
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 fr
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
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 the
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
> > backgrou
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 an
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)
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.
John
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 t
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
> >
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 T
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
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 Business
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
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 a
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
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 reall
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
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 prob
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
you
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 pow
>>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
c
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
> > >you>mean r
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
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,tho
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,tho
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
>
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 sc
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 hard
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 hard
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 scree
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
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 scrip
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