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from: `Don{ald} O. Woodall`
date: 2005-11-27 23:54:48
subject: Re: [OS2HW] Asus A7V880/Power supply issues Was: SCSI DVD?

In , on 11/28/2005 
   at 03:46 AM, "Daniel Lee Kruse"  said:

>>      Have you "blanked" any CD-RW discs in that drive?
>> 
>>      Thanks

>> "Don{ald} O. Woodall"

>I attempted to blank one that had been written with another CD-Writer
>program under Windy.  I have never had success blanking a CD-RW with
>RSJ that had been written in different burning software.  Doesn't
>matter whick RW drive I've tried.  Of course, I haven't really dug
>into the why, either.

     OK, It beginning to sound like we all got lead down
"The Prim Rose Lane" on CD-RW discs.

>Now, I can't try it since my second Asus (Asuck) A7V880 motherboard
>welded the power supply's (SilentMaxx liquid cooled - I got it in July
>05) ATX connector to its ATX connector.  That explains the hot plastic
>smell and the monitor going blank like it no longer was being driven.
> (I'm typing this on my back-up computer.)  I've had this happen with
>my first Asus (Asuck) A7V880 with a different power supply (Enermax -
>it was about 4 years old).  Same red wires being welded to the
>motherboard's ATX connector.  Only the graphics adapter, RAM, CPU,
>hard drive, DVD-RW drive, floppy drive and coolant pump were identical
>between the two motherboards.  At least Asuck replaced the ATX
>connector on the 1st A7V880.  Now I have to figure out how to unjoin
>the two ATX connectors on my second Asuck A7V880.  I think the
>SilentMaxx is undamaged electronically.  I'm half tempted to buy a new
>connector and just snip the wires off at the motherboard.  My next
>motherboard will NOT be an Asus.  I wonder what is causing this?
>Daniel Lee Kruse

     This power supply welding itself to the motherboard is
out of my area of expertise.

     Thanks

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