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"George I. Brisker" <George_I_Brisker@ccm.sc.intel.com> wrote:

>...
>Recently, I decided to assemble a computed for home. I wanted a 
>reasonably-priced tower with at least 300W power supply. I found one at 
>Laitron Computers for $165. It has removable doors on both sides for easy 
>access and two external 3.5 inch, five external 5.25 inch, and three 
>internal 5.25 inch bays. It's not the best case I've seen, but not bad 
>for the price. WARNING!!! This case was manufactured by PCI. Watch out 
>for Quality Control problems!!!

>One of the power-supply connectors in the case was mis-wired. Instead of 
>standard 5V-G-G-12V wiring, it had 12V-G-G-5V on one connector only. 
>Unknowingly, I attached this connector to my fairly expensive 2.2GB Wide 
>SCSI hard drive and turned the power on. As you may imagine, the hard 
>drive started smoking and stopped working.
>...

I mean no offense, and I'm sympathetic with your problem, but the real
problem here is buying on price alone.  A high grade 300W power supply is
expensive (over $100 at retail).  The junky supplies that go into cheap
Taiwanese cases have a variety of problems, including electrical noise and
poor regulation.  In the future, do yourself a favor and pay a bit more for
a high grade power supply.  I personally use supplies from PC Power and
Cooling (619/931-5700).

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John   mailto:JNavas@NavasGrp.com     http://web.aimnet.com/~jnavas/