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azurelunatic) wrote2002-11-14 11:41 am
azurelunatic) wrote2002-11-14 11:41 am
WHEEEE!
Technomancer I am.
Recognized Red's symptoms from some of the computer woes of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
digitalambience when he was here.
Some modern power supplies do not do well with certain computerly insults. Repeated unorthodox shutdowns piss them off, and more importantly, evidently charge some internal capacitors. If the capacitors are still mad at you when you push the 'on' button, the power supply fails to respond.
digitalambience used to solve his power supplies' problems with my favorite screwdriver. In his absence (he had something to grill for dinner, and I wasn't in the mood of offering him anything to entice him in) I tried the same thing. I saw no spark, but then capacitors can and do discharge slowly after sitting around a couple days to think things over.
Votania put Red back together and plugged him in: he works again.
Yaydigitalambience! Yay me!
Recognized Red's symptoms from some of the computer woes of
digitalambience when he was here. Some modern power supplies do not do well with certain computerly insults. Repeated unorthodox shutdowns piss them off, and more importantly, evidently charge some internal capacitors. If the capacitors are still mad at you when you push the 'on' button, the power supply fails to respond.
digitalambience used to solve his power supplies' problems with my favorite screwdriver. In his absence (he had something to grill for dinner, and I wasn't in the mood of offering him anything to entice him in) I tried the same thing. I saw no spark, but then capacitors can and do discharge slowly after sitting around a couple days to think things over. Votania put Red back together and plugged him in: he works again.
Yay
digitalambience! Yay me!