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From: rick@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Eric Ruck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Dead Mega2
Message-ID: <3906@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 9 Jan 90 20:47:13 GMT
Reply-To: rick@jhunix.UUCP (Eric Ruck)
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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OK, I've got a dead Mega 2 ST.  Probably the power supply.  For about 20
seconds it sounded like there was a piece of paper caught in the fan, then
the thing completely blacked out, no power light or anything.

Thus far, my alternatives to getting it repaired seem to be either having one
local repair center cannabilize a 1040 power supply at a cost (parts and
labor) of around $200, or having the thing sent back for $60 and six or so
weeks, none of which seem attractive to me.

Is there anyone who has had this problem, and can suggest a way a couple of
undergraduate EE majors can fix it?

Is there any reason that the power supply in a computer that is of course
out of warrantee but less than six months old and plugged into a fairly 
decent power line filter and surge protector should die?  My old 520's
have never needed repair, but if that's the way Atari builds their new
computers, maybe the popular opinion of computers isn't so off-base (yes,
this is somewhat of a flame.  I've got too much invested in the damn thing
to have to deal with hardware beneath even Apple's standards).

Eric