5 Feb
2003
5 Feb
'03
12:40 p.m.
Wow.
That's extremely good news.
Unfortunately, my experience in repairing the samsung TV's is that you
*start* by replacing about AUS $50 worth of power supply components, then
you see what else failed.
AARRGGH.
Doug Jackson
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-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Pemberton [mailto:philpem@dsl.pipex.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:49 AM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: OT: RE: Collecting, Hacking and the Spooks (was: Gulf War,
Bryan Pope wrote:
And thusly Fred Cisin spake:
Oooooh! ooooooh! How bout an ethanol cooling system for
a P4?!! The
next 'leet mod!
Only one problem with that approach - isn't ethanol, er...
highly flammable?
i.e. if it gets spilt on the CPU, said CPU goes up in flames
along with the
methanol cooler and pretty much everything else in the system case...
Speaking of naffed up PCs, I was given a Celeron 400 box to
play with. The
CD ROM was (supposedly) dead. And rattling - uh-oh... Opened up
the drive
and found out that some in-DUH-vidual put a badly cracked CD in
there. The
CDROM was a 48x. Can you guess what happened to the CD when the
drive got up
to speed? That's right. It shattered. I spent 25 minutes
picking bits of CD
out of the mechanism. And then I powered it up again. And it came up to
speed and read a CD fine. Guess that says something about
Samsung CD drives
then... Unfortunately, the other Samsung 48x drive I was given
really was
dead - the spindle motor bearings seized up...
Later.
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Phil.
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How much
power / heat does a distiller use / generate?!
How much shine could you make from a
still heated by a Pentium? 
5 Feb
5 Feb
6:10 p.m.
Doug Jackson wrote:
Unfortunately, my experience in repairing the samsung
TV's is that you
*start* by replacing about AUS $50 worth of power supply components,
then you see what else failed.
And yet I've got a nine-year-old Samsung
Syncmaster 3 monitor that refuses
to die. Sure, it may only be 14", but it's a damn nice monitor. Not as nice
as a Sony FDTrinitron monitor, but nice...
Later.
--
Phil.
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6 Feb
6 Feb
8:48 a.m.
Unfortunately, my experience in repairing the samsung
TV's is that you
*start* by replacing about AUS $50 worth of power supply components, then
you see what else failed.
Doesn't that apply to any SMPSU that's blown up. You get to replace most
of the parts on the primary side, and if you miss one, or don't find the
fault in some other section they all fail again at switch-on.
Yes, I do know to limit the current (the series lightbulb is useful
here...)_ but even so it's not uncommon for a lot of expensive new
silicon to fail at the first power-on.
-tony
7 Feb
7 Feb
12:37 p.m.
That's extremely good news.
Unfortunately, my experience in repairing the samsung TV's is that you
*start* by replacing about AUS $50 worth of power supply components, then
you see what else failed.
AARRGGH.
Doug Jackson
to speed? That's right. It shattered. I spent 25 minutes
picking bits of CD
out of the mechanism. And then I powered it up again. And it came up to
speed and read a CD fine. Guess that says something about
Samsung CD drives
then... Unfortunately, the other Samsung 48x drive I was given
really was
dead - the spindle motor bearings seized up...
Hey, hot damn, thought I left Samsjunk back there at end of day
today at tv shop. :-P Been battling with a Samsung tv for long time
( no pix but good audio, all the must haves are there). :-(
Samsung do better in monitors, occasionally one comes up with
bizzarre fault that takes eons to track down.
Their samsung TVs is the worst.
Insert your favourite brand of cd stuff drives week:
Sleeve bearings are basically same in any cd, dvd, whatever that uses
CD or DVD format these days. This is unusual on yours to seize up.
The very old ones had ball bearings which is nice but unfortunely
they got died off from chipset failures or very slow.
Cheers,
Wizard
Later.
--
Phil.
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