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Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:29:52 -0700
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: blinking power led

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--- Tom Brown wrote:

> I'm having some problems with one of my eCS systems.
> This is an A7V133
> mobo with a PCP&C power supply. It died over the
> Labor Day weekend,
> trashing my second physical drive, a ~250 MB IDE
> which was connected to
> the Promise PCI-ATA100 secondary IDE controller. The
> partition table has
> gone away and it looks to DFSee like all free space.
> The crash also
> trashed the boot drive:

I wish I had some good ideas for you, Tom, but this
reminds me that I did not have time to follow up in
the earlier thread. Ray seems to believe in buying
cheap junk and just throwing it away -- which is
completely opposite to the way I have always done
things. I like to get something that is known to be
good and not to have to worry about it, or even deal
with it again down the line. In my view, you did
right in your choice of PSU, but obviously there are
no absolute guarantees. The thing people who take
Ray's position overlook is that when a PSU goes, it
can fry much of the rest of what's in the box, and
there goes your whole computer investment. Now maybe
Ray or Steven will say that is not a real-world
scenario. But your unfortunate experience seems to
fall on the other side of the ledger, and I keep
reading online accounts where this has happened.

Jordan

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