The power supply could be part of the problem, but there could be more
hardware failur than just power supply.

When you say the fan stopped working, I guess you mean the fan unit at back
of power supply, it is a common problem that after years of running, fan
unit doesn't work any more, you can replace the fan itself sometimes, or
just replace the whole unit.

However, if after you replace power supply, and you still get same error, it
could mean hard drive failur, or even mobo is gone.  I'd guess you have a
dead mobo.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Closure" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 6:19 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Bad power supply?


> Magitronic Pentium of unknown age running Windows 98.  Fairly stable,
> although I have been having keyboard freezeups, solvable by unplugging
> keyboard and plugging it back in.  Otherwise, it has been pretty reliable,
if
> slow.
>
> When I turned it on today, it said something about Primary Hard Drive,
> followed by something ominous like it was the end of the world.  Couldn't
> even get that far after turning it off and back on.  During various
efforts
> to restart, speakers would make sound kinda like the pop      pop
pop
>    pop      you would hear on a phonograph when you reach the end of a
> record.  (Am I dating myself?)  Another time, it sounded like the
> interference you get on your car radio when you're in an underground
garage,
> (instead of your radio station) with the frequency increasing as the
engine
> revs up.  Needless to say, hard drive failure came to mind.
>
> What makes me question that diagnosis, though, is that the fan stopped,
too.

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