I'll also attest to the value of power stabilization. I may have mentioned it here already but....
One of our friends had so many problems with their 680x0 machine that we finally got tired of playing tech support and gave them an indefinite loan of my wife's PowerCenter 150 (when she got a G3), which had been near perfectly stable at our place. Within a few weeks *that* machine started having similar problems. Odd crashes and such. We'd bring it back up here, run Norton and/or TechTool and/or DiskWarrior, pronounce it cured, and send it back with them. Lather, rinse, repeat... They weren't doing much besides using Eudora and Netscape. Much less than my wife, who does web development,etc. After some head scratching, we put them on a little APC unit - just enough to give them 5 min or so to shut down gracefully in the event of a power outage. We were entering heavy lightning season anyway, so it wasn't too hard a sell. Problem solved. >That is interesting, do you continue to use it through to this day? > >PS > >On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 10:19 PM, Alan Kim wrote: > >> >> >> Paul Shand wrote: >>> >>> Not again. Replacement Power Supply blew after eighteen months. Hey >>> who had the url for the Adaptor for the ATX 300W upgrade for the S900. >>> >>> I wonder if the 8500 and 9500s ever blew a supply twice in the same >>> machine in the same eighteen months? >> >> -------- >> >> Very strange.... >> When I bought my S900 new (ouch), I forked out additional money ($250) >> for the APC BackUPS pro-650, which offers voltage stabilization. >> I've never had any power supply related problems with any of my >> components connected to the power supply. >> >> Alan > > > > -- Bill Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Straw Bale Registry: http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/ -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:supermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:supermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:supermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
