Well,
I don't know if your problem is caused by a bad PS,
but in my experience PowerComputing PSs haven't been
as reliable as Apple's ones. I might have been
unlucky, though.
You should be able to tell a bad PS from the weird
noises it does at startup (but not only then).
Cheers
Andrea
--- bgeiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Here's the thing. I've got a PowerCenter 132
> with 64 megs ram, sys
> 8.5.1 and 1.2 Meg HD that behaves quite strangely.
> Sporadically, it loses
> all preferences, something like a bad pram battery
> would do. However
> replacing the battery does nothing to solve the
> problem. Zapping the
> pram, reformatting the HD does not solve the problem
> either.
>
> What I've read somewhere in this discussion
> list is that a failing
> power supply causes all sorts of strange problems.
> I'm wondering if a new
> power supply could solve my problem. Anyone have a
> similar experience or
> thoughts on replacing the power supply?
>
> "Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night
> without moon or star."
> --Confucious
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