19 Oct 2003, 20:57, JIM HOLSONBACK (1:123/140), wrote to ROY J. TELLASON:

Hi JIM.

 RJT>> That's not there either.

 JH> Oops!  Not a good sign.  Maybe something got shorted somewhere or 
 JH> caused some power surge which blew an internal PS fuse?

 JH> Just a thought - - FWIW, while bench testing multiple CDROM 
 JH> drives and trying to hot-plug in power connector to them, I've 
 JH> sometimes caused the testbed ATX PS to shut itself down,  but the PS 
 JH> generally started working again after a few minutes cooling down 
 JH> period.  The testbed has a good-quality PS - Astec as bir.  Maybe a 
 JH> less expensive PS would have blown a fuse?

Years ago in the days of the "AT" PSs, I wired a cigarette
lighter into one of the blank front panels on one of my dealer's 'display
systems' with a 200W PS.  It worked great, and caught a few comments, maybe
a customer or two.  At least a few people asked questions, that was a first
step!

When the system became an ATX with a 250W PS, my dealer had me move the
lighter to the new system.  Attempting to use it there ALWAYS caused a
system shutdown, then we had to wait five minutes before the PS would turn
on again.  The lighter was disconnected, and left as a conversation piece
after that.

Either the ATX 250W didn't have the 'guts' of the AT 200W, or the ATX had a
quicker overload sensor.  Never tried it since...   :-((


     Good luck...  M.

--- Msged/386 TE 06 (pre)