At 11:58 AM 3/19/98 -0800, you wrote:
<snipped fatal exception stuff -- I have no idea>

>  My initial theory was that the hard drive upgrade that I had been
>putting off should be installed while the old drive might still be
>accessible.
>  When I got the machine open and fired it up, I noticed something
>rather scary.  If I moved the power lead for the CPU fan around, the
>fan would slow down and speed up, and when it sped up all the way,
>the hard drive would "wake up".
>
>  My revised diagnosis is that the power supply has become
>unreliable and/or inadequate.  This is something that others seeing
>this kind of symptom should probably be aware of and check.

I saw a similar symptom, and the problem was the drive.  The motor was
either locked up or shorted.


Paul Jones
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