On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:51:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 16:07 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> The young friend was here yesterday evening, and concluded immediately >> that the power supply was dead. Maybe it did arc somewhere; odd that >> that hasn't happened before. > Not at all. Power supplies can die after a while like everything else, > even when on a UPS. Silly question: is your UPS properly grounded? Well, all of my UPSs (iirc) are wired by the maker (APC) to complain if not; this particular one, a duplicate of what my computer shop uses, would probably do its celebrated imitation of a fire engine in a fight to the death with an ambulance if it found itself ungrounded. It wakes me up easily if we have a power failure in the night -- and I sleep on the floor above. >> The dead power supply is a type we can't get around here. > > If you mean the brand then I wouldn't worry about it. They are all > pretty standard (and are also liable to fail after a few years). The last couple Dave has assembled are in what he calls toaster boxes, which are designed to be stacked; that saves desk space wonderfully. But the inside, when the local friend got the lid off, looked utterly unlike any I've seen before; and the local friend didn't try to pretend I'd be able to replace the part when it comes. I suspect it's the external geometry rather than the specs that we have to match. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
