14 Jun
2005
14 Jun
'05
11:39 p.m.
Kevin Handy wrote:
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
<rant>
If I looked through my records, I bet I could name the model. A tiny
box with hard disk, floppy drive, oversized CPU fan, case fan, CD
reader, and a *90W* PSU?
Some retailer here sold a crapload of those. I put a bunch of them,
the ones that didn't fry the motherboard, into mini-towers with real
power supplies.
In any other industry, those particular eMachines would have been a
recall item.
</rant>
Doc
That's what I'm thinking, but then maybe
not. I've tried cleaning both
the power connector and the switch several times with contact cleaner,
but
that had no effect. I'm not ruling it out yet, but because of the way
this thing powers on sometimes and not others, I'm suspecting a bad
capacitor or something(?)
I have a e-machine PC with a flakey power supply somewhat
like that. It's a small, underpowered unit that will sometimes
power up all the fans when you push the button, but not always.
Doesn't ever bring up the boot screen. Plug in a known good
power supply, and everything works (but it doesn't fit the case).