XT Power Supply help... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Apr 1998

That's odd.  My power supply's 130W.  It's also the 220v variety, as
that's
what's available here.  It was made in Dublin, Ireland.  It really looks
like it was how it was made, as it looks REALLY built-in to the case.
Anyway, I can't see any reason that it would be dememanding too much power,
all I have connected is a XT clone motherboard, (however, it WAS sitting in
an XT case) and a XT floppy drive connected.  So, any ideas?  I think that
it was just this PS's time to go.... and it was two weeks one day older than
I am!
    Thanks for the help.  I might need a new PSU, as I'm not good at this
type of thing.  After testing it with a dummy load, just a HDD, and a FDD
(one at a time), and rechecking all my power connections, I think that it
REALLY is dead.
    Thanks,

Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: SUPRDAVE &lt;SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: XT Power Supply help...

...
 In a message dated 98-04-29 16:12:26 EDT, you write:

<< > >> Hi.  After getting a new M Board for my XT and a load of cards, I
found
 > >>that
 > >> my Power Supply's now completely dead.  So, where to I start?  No
fan,
...
   >moves
> a turn or two, I know that the power connections good. 
 Could you simply be overloading it? >> as long as its an xt power supply and
not one from a 5150 pc, there should be
...
 no problems. the 5150 was only 63watts, which was good
for maybe floppy
drives. the xt has an ~80 watt power supply so there shouldnt be any danger of
...
 overloading unless it was dodgy to begin with. ive a
loaded up xt and the
power supply handles it just fine.

david 