[Thinkpad] OT: Cooked Desktop

[Aryeh Goretsky]

Hello,

If there is any valuable data on the P3-900 computer's hard disk drive, I
would suggest that you remove it, mount it in another computer as a slave
to the primary hard disk drive and then back up the valuable data.

When you are done doing that, you can then begin troubleshooting the
computer to see if you can determine which components were affected by
the power supply failure.

You may also wish to take this opportunity to disassemble the computer,
clean the chassis, reseat all the components, clean and or replace fans
and so forth.

Some desktop computers, notably Dell's, use power supplies that are
physically but not electrically compatible with the ATX standard.  Other
manufacturers (Hewlett Packard and eMachines come to mind), may use power
supplies with regular ATX connectors and pin-outs, but come in non-standard
sizes (usually micro-ATX).  It is important to replace the power supply
with the correct replacement type.  Failure to do so may cause interesting
things to occur.

Many power supply manufacturers (Antec, PC Power & Cooling, Seasonic,
Sparkle, Thermaltake, Vantec, etc.) can tell you whether or not one of
their models will work with a particular brand and model of computer or
motherboard.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky



At 10:00 AM 2/7/2007, you wrote:

>Message: 5
>Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:13:22 -0800
>From: jberry at islandnet.com (Jonathan Berry)
>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] MS software killed my drive ??
>To: Thinkpad at stderr.org
>Message-ID: <SPUyF5mip54U092yn at islandnet.com>
>
>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