RE: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all s csi comp uter

2003-01-10 Thread Michael Kahle
> A few years ago, the big high-load PSU I'd just bought > literally caught fire inside the server it was installed in, > so I swapped the old, low-load, non-burning PSU back in and > asked a friend to help me fix it. He was a better solderer > than me, so he replaced a couple of power transis

Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all s csi comp uter

2003-01-10 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:33:16AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > > yeah, mine had the heat sink and fan from a 486, fitted nicely. > > It was stable [even when overclocked] running woody with an smp kernel. > > Died because i added a graphics card befor

Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all s csi comp uter

2003-01-10 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:40:37AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > > thats exactly what happend to my bp6... > > > > hugh > > We've got a BP6 in the fileserver here, I must have one of the few that is > stable. It wasn't stable for the first few months

Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all s csi comp uter

2003-01-10 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 05:42:55AM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > Mike Dresser wrote: > >On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Michael Kahle wrote: [snip] > >Some of the best hardware problems are prefaced with things like > > > >"Nah, it'll be fine" > >"Hey, I wonder what happens when you do this" > >"It'll be fine,