[CCTALK] Re: Alpha 3000/800

From: Stan Pietkiewicz <pietstan_at_rogers.com>
Date: Tue May 14 16:51:11 2002

Tothwolf wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 May 2002, Stan Pietkiewicz wrote:
>
> > 1.5.1 install floppy, and got to the sysinst menu, when I smelled the
> > ominous presence of escaping magic blue smoke (even though I didn't see
> > any!).. I powered everything off, let it sit for a few minutes while I
> > tried to find the source of the non-smoke.
> > When I powered the 3000 back up, it hung with FD displayed on the LED
> > display, with no output to the VT320...
> >
> > Any ideas as to what might be cooked??
>
> My first guess would be that something failed in the power supply, maybe
> due to bad caps?
>
> -Toth
That was my first thought as well... I opened up the supply and found no
visible evidence of failure anywhere. Now if I knew which line was
supposed to be which output, I could check the voltage outputs with the
DVM....

Stan
Received on Tue May 14 2002 - 16:51:11 BST