<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>the #1 cause of most H/W issues I see is due to Power. Drives are taking more and power. CPUs (especially Intel) are gobbling up power like never before. Videocards are destroying the power. It used to be a 250watt PS was HUGE. Now more and more people are needing PS with wattage greater than 500. So my suggestion to all is if you are replacing a PS, get a larger (in wattage) one that you have now.<div><br></div><div>good luck!!<br><div><br><div><div>On Dec 6, 2009, at 10:47 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">You working success is good news!<br><br>Over the last 10 years I have seen more and more system failures related to crappy power supplies. I am beginning to wonder if a crisis is brewing between production cost and quality. Power supplies are tasked with more capabilities yet have declined in cost for power output (I think) even faster than motherboards, ram and cpu's. maybe we need some opensource designs out there to evaluate...<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Geoffrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
New power supply is in and we are cooking again. Sweet, thanks for the<br>
troubleshooting assistance folks!<br>
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