From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Geo."
 wrote:
>
>One of the things I've found with dvr's where I try to put a bigger HD in
>them is the power supply is so small it limits the choice of what HD you can
>use. On the plus size, there is no fan so I understand why they choose such
>a small power supply.

I have a fanless machine with a 25 watt power supply. It uses a laptop hard
drive. There's very little margin. I experimented with making a MP3 player
out of it, and installed an old Sound Blaster with on-board amplifier (only
a watt or two per channel). If I cranked up the volume, the machine would
hang...

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