[Thinkpad] OT: Cooked Desktop

[Deanna Berman]

My admittedly uneducated guess is that you shouldn't risk it unless there's
absolutely nothing of value on the hard drive that hasn't been backed up.
Being cooked inside that case wasn't good for anything inside it, even if
nothing appears to fail immediately. With the current low prices on PCs, you
could get a new computer with all new components for less than the price of
replacing a few of the prematurely weakened ones.

If you do try to resurrect the old one, I suggest getting a stronger power
supply of the same form factor. I've heard that it is not unusual for
desktops to be outfitted with underpowered ones. My old Dell started
undercooling when it was barely a year old - and naturally it required a
more-expensive power supply with a proprietary connector configuration.

Deanna

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Berry" <jberry at islandnet.com>
To: <Thinkpad at stderr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] MS software killed my drive ??


> OT : desktop
>
> My wife's PIII 900, about 6 years old, shut down with the smell
> of burning electrical stuff.
>
> Coming to the scene about 4 minutes later, I found that the
> power supply was hot, the HD was quite warm, and most
> everything else was warm.  Powering up does nothing.  Not a
> sound.
>
> So, my next step will be to replace the power supply with
> one the same rating as the old one, and hope for the best?
> Or should I do something else?
>
> -- 
> happy
> Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm
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