----- 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.
(snip)

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

         PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download
                     visit our download web page at:
                     http://nospin.com/pc/files.html