power supply postscript

["Stephen Adler" <user=65@nabble.blu.org>]

 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. 

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