[ale] AMD300 Watt PS

[Chris Fowler]

I think I nailed it.  After shutting everything off, it still happened.  I
cracked open the case and found two things.

1.  AMD800 Slot A processor seemed a little loose.
2.  Power plug in 40X CDROM was not in all the way.

I corrected both and all seems well (so far).  I believe this happened when
I took my computer to my parents house over the 4 day vacation. and holiday.
I drove it roughly 230 miles from here and set it up there.  I could not
live without it over 4 days.  I then drove it back home.  It is possible
that this towing could have jarred some things loose.  I built this PC
myself.

However,  I'm going to still investigate the dimming effect on the light in
the office.

Thanks,
Chris Fowler

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Heaven [mailto:robertheaven at mediaone.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 3:36 PM
To: Chris Fowler
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] AMD300 Watt PS


Not sure but I think I got you beat. The genious that built this house
put 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom on a single 15amp breaker. Back when the
girls were teenagers and living at home, they couldn't use 2 hair dryers
at the same time without popping the breaker. Now that I have one room
for an office and the other room is empty things are allot simpler. But
I'm still overloading the circuit and need 3 APC BackUPS Batteries to
keep from popping the breaker...

On a single 15amp breaker:

1 - P166 old Compaq
1 - Celery 366
2 - K6/2-500
1 - IBM StinkPad T21
2 - Printers
2 - External Modems
1 - Axis Print Server
1 - Cable Modem
1 - 8 Port Hub
1 - External Zip Drive
1 - Flat Bed Scanner
2 - Sets of Powered Speakers
2 - 17" Monitors
1 - 4 Port KVM Switch
1 - Cordless Phone
3 - Halogen Desk Lamps
1 - Ceiling Fans with light fixture

Plus all the lights and outlets in the bathroom and the other bedroom.


Chris Fowler wrote:

>I just began having an interesting problem on a machine that has an AMD300
>watt power supply.  It randomly reboots itself.  I believe it has something
>to do with the load on the circuit.  I see this problem sometimes when the
>central-air heater starts up.  I'll rundown what is on the circuit.
>
>
>3 Lights
>1 21" HPA4033A Monitor
>1 19" TV
>1 VCR
>1 Subwoffer speaker set
>1 Celeraon 400 with 250Watt PS
>1 Mini computer with 60Wat PS
>1 5 Port 10/100 Switch
>1 5 Port 10mb hub
>1 P75 with 200 Watt PS
>1 Telocity DSL adapter
>1 Toshiba Laptop
>1 Cell phone charger.
>
>As I typed this list out I'm thinking "Damn!"
>
>Chris
>
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