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From: robert@hemingway.WEITEK.COM (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Problems
Message-ID: <801@hemingway.WEITEK.COM>
Date: 12 Oct 89 03:29:05 GMT
References: <12876@s.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: robert@hemingway.WEITEK.COM (Robert Plamondon)
Organization: WEITEK, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <12876@s.ms.uky.edu> simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales) writes:
>My suspicion is that the power supply is too puny to pull all of the drives -
>a 40 meg full-ht, 20 meg half-ht, 1.2 meg floppy, and a 10meg Irwin tape. The
>motherboard is a WD that requires only 15 watts.  Finally, it has an internal 
>modem and 1meg on a RamPage card.  All powered from a 115 watt power supply.

Well, since you have vastly more stuff in there than IBM put in its
PC/XT, and the PC/XT still had a bigger power supply than yours,
I'd say you're probably right.  I would run right out and buy a 200
watt power supply.  I would also back up the hard drive and do a
low-level format (not a DOS format) -- stepper-motor hard disks often
need reformatting after a year or two.

I would also run out and buy a copy of UPGRADING AND REPAIRING PCS. I
don't remember the author's name, but the publisher is QUE.  It is a
gold mine of PC hardware information.

	-- Robert
-- 
    Robert Plamondon
    robert@weitek.COM
    "No Toon can resist the old 'Shave and a Hair-Cut'"