On 8/29/2010 4:50 AM, wyeo wrote:
Too much draw from the power supply, if you have an original power supply, it is insufficient and the PS overheats and heats up the rest of the system. I had the same issue when I have just TWGS, RF SCSI and a sound card, it will start locking up. Either you get a heavy duty power supply (likes of Pegasus, InnerDrive, Vulcan), or the Buggie Power for a replacement. But recently, I came across an article on changing the size of the cable inside the original power supply, to push out more juice ... and jumping the power cables directly to the slots (for the serious hardware hacker).
That's just voodoo. You need a power supply with a bigger capacity, and increasing the size of the wires won't do it. (It also makes your system look like Frankenstein. ;-) I suspect this superstition got started because a few folks with just marginal power problems tried it and it gave them an additional few millivolts, making their systems slightly less marginal. ;-) Don't bother. Get a supply with more capacity--specifically, more +5v capacity. -michael NadaNet 3.1 for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."