Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!skink.cis.ohio-state.edu!watters From: watters@skink.cis.ohio-state.edu (david r watters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: dead 2000 power supply Message-ID: <87806@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 30 Jan 91 02:26:15 GMT References: <1991Jan29.220628.18859@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: david r watters Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 21 In article <1991Jan29.220628.18859@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> vho@churchy.ai.mit.edu (Viet Ho) writes: >Is there a quick fix for dead A2000 powersupply? >Symptom: When I turn it on, the LED (POWER) lights > up but then dies in 1 sec. >-Viet These are the symptoms I had in one of my machines. I took it to my local amiga dealer and he took $50 to look at it, proclaimed the supply dead, ordered a new one (>$150), charged me $90 in labor (9hrs.) to put in the new one, and threw out my old one. My fan had gotten full of gook and I kept catching it being stuck. Well, it obviously had gotten stuck without me catching it and burned out, thus keeping the machine from coming up. So I paid ~$300 to fix a $15 dollar fan. The moral: We are all doomed to get screwed. ps. Now you know why I am not enthused about trying to fix my 2091. -- "All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer by the stars. All of us do time in the gutter, dreamers turn to look at the cars!" - RUSH David watters@cis.ohio-state.edu "It's 12:35... and Michigan STILL sucks." _-_-_-__---_---_---__-_-_-____ TurboExpress : The Neo*Geo of portables _____