On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 14:55 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Robin Laing wrote: > > I am not running a 64 bit machine but I have had numerous power issues > > with my computer. Three power supplies later things are working quite > > well. Most issues started when trying to burn a DVD, in fact it burnt > > out a DVD burner by not supplying enough power for it. > > > > I have had really bad experiences with Antec power supplies and a known > > problem with the 5V rail. > > Wow, I bought an ANTEC case w/PS a few years back because I had heard > that they were better than most. What PS is the most reliable if ANTEC > isn't? (I ask because 1 CD/RW and 1 IDE drive has already failed in > that case and another, the boot drive, is showing SMART failures, and I > do suspect the PS as the cause. No problems (yet) with the SATA drives. > PS is 450W). I use Ultra Products supplies. Several of my machines have the 500W or 600W XPS supplies. Here's a link: http://www.ultraproducts.com/product_details.php?cPath=52&pPath=510&productID=510 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - "Hello. My PID is Inigo Montoya. You `kill -9'-ed my parent - - process. Prepare to vi." - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
