-> WC> I'm going to load the cleaned PS with a dead drive and hook
-> WC> the ACER CD-ROM up to it to test it out. 

-> WC> The Acer will play audio CD's through the headphone jack
-> WC> kludged up on a desktop with a power supply. 

-> WC> If it tests OK I'll slap it in the H.P. in the next couple
-> WC> of weeks. It worked in a previous machine. 

-> I hope it works for you. 

Nope, drawer won't respond.
Come to think of it that's how I wiped out the NEC by plugging
the connector in offset two pins on the end outside :-(

Power through the wrong junctions must have fried the semiconductors.     

Goes with getting old eyesight.
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