On 20 May 98 at 18:35, Hial Noobt wrote:

> Say, a system has Cd-ROMS drives, hardisks and other peripherals
> and only using a 200W power supply instead of 250W or 300W. What
> are the ill effects?

  I've seen a variety of really strange failures on machines where
the hard drives didn't get enough "juice".

  The key, though, to recognizing a power supply problem is that it
is usually much worse on cold boot than on a worm boot.  Spinning up
the drives from a standing start tends to be among the largest
demands on the machine's power supply.

David G