Hello Roy.

31 Jan 03 04:06, you wrote to me:

 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
 RT>>> and powersupply for over a year, and suddenly I have 2 off  them,
 RT>>> 

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

 RT> Dead PS?

Yep.

 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
 RT>> which diode is bad :-).

 RT>> Is it worth fixing?

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

Might wait a long time for that to happen, but then one never knows ....

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

Well it works reasonably well over a 56k modem ...

 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
 RT>> a matter of impedance matching more than anything else.

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

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

Record to disk, split the tracks and write to CD, most time consuming thing 
about the whole process is splittung the tracks for me. Determining where the 
track ends sometimes takes some time listening.

 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.

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

From reading you comments on that elsewhere, I'd long ago done a brand 
spanking new install and started from scratch. Only reason I'd try and fix it 
was if I had the time and inclination for a "learning" experience.

Russell

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