Hi list, at the moment I'm a lot happier than I thought I was going to be - got a new mobo last weekend, eventually got it to settings where it seemed to be stable (had to detune the memory to DDR333 to keep memtest86+ happy - it's an athlon64 with 4x512 PC3200 single-sided), invoked powernowd to slow it down, sat at the keyboard updating some notes and listening to the radio (cpu load <10%) when it suddenly powered off. Refused to turn back on.
I've now swapped the mains lead, and its running again (yes, really, the fuse seems to have protected the transistors, instead of vice-versa). So, now for the question - apart from catastrophic shorts or failures, what can cause a mains fuse to fail ? I'm hoping its not running on borrowed time. If relevant, this is a 423W PSU and I don't think the load is particularly high (Winchester 64, 4x512, 1 disk, 1 combi, radeon 9200se) - my preliminary calculations suggested the load should be well within PSU ability. Ken -- das eine Mal als Trag�die, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
