Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!ndsuvm1!mtus5!ldshaner From: LDSHANER@MTUS5.BITNET (Leon D. Shaner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Amiga 2000 Power supply problem Message-ID: <90302.190247LDSHANER@MTUS5.BITNET> Date: 30 Oct 90 00:02:47 GMT References: Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ. Lines: 19 I had a similar problem, but with no noises... I just came in one day and the machine wasn't powered down (I run a BBS, so it is normally up 24 Hours) I thought some moron had shut it off... Anyway, the switch was on and so I didn't know what to think... I turned it off and back and it came on... After about a minute it just shut down... I had a window fan going when I first tried it, so I didn't notice that the fan in the power supply was not working... I tested the voltage at the fan's contact leads and it was roughly 12 volts as required... Turns out, the fan was bad and the PS new it, so it would shut down... I went to RadioShack and bought one of their $15.00 fans that have exactly the same power ratings, and installed it... The thing was fatter, so I had to put the screws in differently than the original... Right now, it is making the most horrible noise - I'm going to have to replace it again, soon, so I'm going to try to find a source for the original fan, since it lasted over 2.5 years... Good luck...