Re: power supply postscript

["Bill Horne-12" <user=1521@nabble.blu.org>]

 Stephen Adler wrote: 
> Well, 
> 
> After listening to all the good advice about my power supply problem 
> on this mailing list, the end of the saga was that the power supply 
> got replaced. Since I had two identical systems, I did a simple test, 
> which required some elbow grease. I took out both power supplies. In 
> doing so, I realized that the one which did not have the fans running 
> was much hotter. The power supply was smaller than the case, so 
> touching the outside of the case didn't give me any indication of the 
> real temp of the power supply. Once the power supplies were removed, I 
> jumpered the green and black cables on the main mother board 
> connector. This allows one to turn on the power supply without having 
> it plugged into a motherboard. On one power supply, the fans turned 
> on, on the other, the fans didn't budge. So, out went the bad power 
> supply. The replacement was a smaller one, which I had sitting in my 
> basement, a 350Watt power supply. I'm hoping it has enough umph to 
> driver my system. (My system consists of an AMD based mother board, 2 
> sticks of 1 gig ecc memory, 3 SATA drives, a geforce 8400 video card, 
> and an ide dvd r/w driver.) I checked the voltages through the bios 
> console and they seemed happy, but this wasn't under any load. Anyway, 
> I'll order another 485W power supply and replace it later. 
> 
> Cheers. Steve. 
>