Russell Tiedt wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

RT>> You swapped ram out,  did you try other video hardware?  Other
RT>> power supply?

RT>> I swapped RAM out, other video hardware, and the power supply 
RT>> is/seems fine.  As soon as I finish, building the owner's new 
RT>> system, the case and mobo will  be mine, so I will have lots of 
RT>> time to play with it, been battling to get  hold of a ATX case and 
RT>> powersupply for over a year, and suddenly I have 2 off  them, 

RT> Seems I only got one, the second don't work. :-(

Dead PS?

RT> I have as of yet made no moves in this direction...  Got one ATX
RT> supply here, which doesn't work.  I'm pretty sure I know what the
RT> problem is (somewhat burned filter coil makes it pretty obvious which
RT> diode is bad :-).

RT> Is it worth fixing?

Maybe.  If I come across another similar diode,  yeah,  as that'd probably
be cheaper than buying another ATX supply.  Not that I have a need for one
at the moment,  but I'd sooner fix it than toss it out.

RT>> Also got a 16-port hub,  and only ports 1-5 are in use so far, 
RT>> though I have plans for several more machines.  Too bad it's only
RT>> 10MB,  but the price was right (free).

RT>> 16 ports is not too shabby, even at 10MB.

RT> Yes.  Even though 100M is "the thing" these days I can
work with this
RT> quite a bit.  I've been advised that 10 will even handle streaming
RT> audio,  which sort of fits in with my plans here.

RT> 10MB networking is all I got here and is plenty fast enough, tho,
RT> if I put a  'putor next to the Hi-Fi and want to record to a drive
RT> on my system in the room, a 100MB might be needed, then maybe not.

I dunno,  people seem to have been telling me that streaming audio would
work over 10M.  I guess I'll find out where the limits are,  once I get
going with this stuff.

RT> For that price I'd buy one too.  But my cartridge isn't of the 
RT> magnetic variety,  it's ceramic,  so what preamp is needed is just a
RT> matter of impedance matching more than anything else.

RT> Never had a ceramic cartridge, so I have no idea. :-( Sorry.

Not a problem,  as I have plenty of stuff on tape to mess with in the
meantime.  Sequential access is no fun at all when you get used to CDs.

RT> But first I gotta get the software working!

RT>> Yep.  We'll see how it goes,  from here.  Think gramofile will
RT>> deal with a cassette tape?  :-)

RT>> It might, tho I think it was done more with LP's in mind.

RT> Yeah.  Now all I need to do is figure out why it won't run!  :-(

RT> No problems running it here.

As it's not the only thing I'm having a problem running,  I'm not faulting
the program.  It's something else in the setup that's gone screwy on me.  I
think I may have a go at adding 8.1 to the spare drive I have sitting here
and see about getting away from the hassles.

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