Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!bj From: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Amiga 2000 Power supply problem Message-ID: <15374@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 24 Oct 90 19:52:19 GMT References: Reply-To: bj@cbmvax.commodore.com (Brian Jackson) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 27 In article hinker@acl.lanl.gov writes: > > I think I have a problem with the power supply in my Amiga 2000. About a [...] > I was crunching along on a ray-trace a couple of nights ago when all of >a sudden the machine just went dead. Now when I turn it on, the power light >comes on and the disk drives start to spin up and then it shuts off. Like >a breaker going out. The lights only stay on maybe a second and then nothing. > > Is this a power supply problem or something more insidious? The fuse in >the power supply is good and there don't seem to be any shorts that I can >detect. I had a very similar problem with my 2500 and it proved to be the switch on the power supply. It happens :) >Paul Hinker hinker@acl.lanl.gov bj ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Brian Jackson Software Engineer, Commodore-Amiga Inc GEnie: B.J. | | bj@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com or ...{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!bj | | "It's a dog-eat-dog world and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." | -----------------------------------------------------------------------