Hello Wayne.

26 Jan 03 19:23, you wrote to Charles Angelich:

 CA>> fwiw: Two of my power supplies ceased to remain within
 CA>> tolerance and died shortly after I installed a SB16 card. I
 CA>> suspect they draw a bit of amperage compared to other cards?
 CA>> Do they rate these things anywhere?

 WC> I've the old proprietary CD-ROM - SoundBlaster
 WC> running on this 150 watt power supply with a 486
 WC> with 20 meg RAM.
 WC> I did burn a previous 150W PS when I added a second hard drive
 WC> on my previous machine similarly equipped save but one drive in
 WC> this one.
 WC> I've got a heavier spare.
 WC> I'm sure you're talking PCI though so YMMV.
 WC> --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5

SB16 was ISA, as is the SB32AWE I have here.

Russell

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