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Help - bad power supply?!

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From: Joel McClure
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 00:00

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The other day the power cut off in my home for about a second and then
came back on.  The pc was on, but I have a surge protector installed,
and the "ready" light was still lighted on it afterwards.  A few days
later the cpu fan started vibrating annoyingly, and the CD ROM doesn't
read some disks (makes a low grinding noise).  It reads other disks
just like before w/ no problem.  Today, the boot drive, which is new,
failed to come up to speed a few times after spinning down during
power save mode.  It would try to spin up and then spin back down
sometimes.  Which of these problems are related?!  I'm planning on
replacing the CPU fan, but I'm wondering if I need a new power supply?

Thanks very much,


Joel McClure

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From: jmcclure@tir.com (Joel McClure)
Subject: Help - bad power supply?!
Date: 1997/12/09
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