Re: GS Power supply / HD problem

[tyung@gpu3.srv.ualberta.ca (Tony Yung)]

What Illuminatus? (hades@u.washington.edu) wrote:
: I left my GS on yesterday while I went downstairs to watch some TV. When I 
: came back a couple hours later I found it had crashed, hard enough that my 
: screen was rolling with some kind of static-like garbage.

: My hard drive (an AE Vulcan 40) was making a gravelly scratching sound, so I
: quickly turned the system off.

: I tried rebooting, and it loaded the finder up just fine. However, it would
: no longer read any 3.5" disks. When I put them in the drive, the drive light 
: would go on and then the system would hang.

: I tried various things to see what the problem was, and I've narrowed it down
: to this: the power supply in the Vulcan is toast. It's not providing enough
: power, as far as I can tell.
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: Thanks for reading to the bottom... I know I've been rambling.

: -Josh

Yeah, I had something like that.... sometimes when I did a 
three-fingered-salute, the screen would flicker giving me some weird 
patteren and the 5 1/4 drive light would come on, the system would just 
lock up... switching it off would fix the problem.  I thought it had 
something to do with loose connection with the TWGS 32K, 7MHz.  I also had a 
100 meg Vulcan HD, 4meg QRam-GS, SuperSoniq Stereo... and ran it topless.
But it doesn't matter anymore, sold the thing a couple of months ago!

-Tony Yung
-tyung@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca