On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 at 21:41:46, Timothy Swenson wrote:
(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>After letting my Q40 sit for a while (since I am still having the
>partition problem), I decided to hook up a 400 Meg drive as master
>(leaving the current master idle) and give that a shot. So, I
>unplugged the old drive (IDE cable and power), hooked up the spare
>drive, and turn it on. Have you ever seen lightening indoors? Boy,
>did the power supply light up and make a funny noise. It looks like
>the power supply is fried. I doubt a fuse blowing would produce a lot
>of light, make a an arcing sound, and smell that bad.
Nope (8-)#
Fortunately the protection system in PC power supplies usually stops
over voltages appearing on the outputs.
Keep you fingers crossed.
Don't even _think_ about repairing it.
AT power supplies should be quite cheap - under UKP20 over here.
> The power is still being passed to the monitor (it's power was plugged
>into the computer).
>
>I think hardware does not like me.
... and vice versa (8-)#
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