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----- Original Message -----
Ben Moore reports:
> I've had a strange thing happen twice now to my machine, once about a week
> ago, the second time today. All of a sudden I'll get a lot of static from
> the speakers. The only way to stop this is to reboot. When I reboot, I
> have no drives on my secondary IDE controller which controls my CD and Zip
> drives. Auto detect shows both as "none" on the bios boot screen. More
> investigation shows that the drives are not powered at all. No lights on
> either the zip or CD. Neither will eject. If I shut down, wait at least
60
> seconds and then reboot the drives come back and all is well.
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Just a geuss, but since you reported excessive static on the speakers, try
the system w/o the sound card. Otherwise, it does sound like a power
supply problem. Also, you can try disabling 1 or 2 other drives to reduce
some of the load. If that makes a difference, replace the power supply.
-yui shin
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