sondeen@isi.edu (Jeff Sondeen) (03/13/91)
Problem: apparent power supply death Question: how not to kill the replacement? I have an clone 386 (2 years old) whose power supply (230 watts) died during power up one day, now making only a faint humming noise which fades like a motor running down when turned off. This followed a few weeks after my successful addition of 4 more Megs of memory (totalling 8); there are also 2 hard disks but the vendor thinks there's no power overload. The vendor recommended disconnecting cards and connectors one at a time to check for shorts causing the power supply to go into "protect" mode. No disconnections seemed to bring the power supply back alive. A new one costs $45; however, how can I be sure that I don't fry the new one when I put that in? Thanks for any advice. -- /jeff sondeen@isi.edu "engineers were discouraged from bringing problems to the attention of their supervisors" -- John Magnus, final report, Hubble Space Telescope investigation