"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
> >I could use some help with what seems to be a BAD power
> >supply. For the past month, I started to experience more
> >and more frequent crashes of the system. About 2 weeks
> >ago, I figured that it seemed to be the power supply and
> >I started to use an external power supply for the 3 hard
> >disk drives. That solved the problem and a few days ago,
> >I replaced the internal power supply so that now the 3 hard
> >drives are back on the new internal power supply with the
> >rest of the system (and it is now very quiet again since the
> >external power supply had a noisy fan!).
> Jerome,
> Is this on your PC or on your PDP-11? If it was on the PC, just toss
> the powersupply. It's not worth the effort.
Jerome Fine replies:
On the PDP-11 (well actually on the PC since I run RT-11
under E11 so I can say to myself that it is not really Windows).
I agree that it is not worth the effort, but I was just hoping that
it might be possible to confirm that when the load is increased,
the voltage levels are not sufficient. And when I do toss the
power supply, I usually cut off the cables for the hard drives
since they can then be easily converted to "Y" connectors
by adding a female connector to the cut portion.
Seriously, is there an easy way to test a PC power supply
without opening the case?
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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Received on Fri Apr 02 2004 - 16:57:55 BST