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Jun. 24th, 2012 12:50 amA week or three back, I finally got a chance to go back over to Fay's and try the replacement power supply in Eddore (what had been my main computer) (it's been down since at least last summer).
It didn't even twitch when power was applied. Which meant that either the new power supply was dead or the system has *much* more serious problems than I'd been afraid it did.
Anyway, that left the power supply available for it's original purpose, namely replacing the dead supply in the Ploor (my third string computer). I'd wanted to use it to test the dead primary box first, so as to eliminate the power supply as the problem.
Tonight I finally got around to swapping it into the Ploor. Had a bit of fun until I realized that a supposedly keyed 4 prong power connector *wasn't* keyed usefully unless you made sure that the latch was aligned. Once that was done, the system poewered up just fine.
I'd grabbed some RDRAM (both Thrale and Ploor boxes use this obscure type of RAM) at a *very* good price to upgrade the two boxen (both Gateway systems I got ages ago at Stuff) to max capacity (2 gig). So I tested both sets in Ploor. Both sets are good so next time I shut down Thrale I'll upgrade it. Given the usual sort of uptimes I have, this may be a month or so.
Anyway, with Ploor upgraded and running I've got Windows, various AV programs, etc running updates. This may take a while.
It didn't even twitch when power was applied. Which meant that either the new power supply was dead or the system has *much* more serious problems than I'd been afraid it did.
Anyway, that left the power supply available for it's original purpose, namely replacing the dead supply in the Ploor (my third string computer). I'd wanted to use it to test the dead primary box first, so as to eliminate the power supply as the problem.
Tonight I finally got around to swapping it into the Ploor. Had a bit of fun until I realized that a supposedly keyed 4 prong power connector *wasn't* keyed usefully unless you made sure that the latch was aligned. Once that was done, the system poewered up just fine.
I'd grabbed some RDRAM (both Thrale and Ploor boxes use this obscure type of RAM) at a *very* good price to upgrade the two boxen (both Gateway systems I got ages ago at Stuff) to max capacity (2 gig). So I tested both sets in Ploor. Both sets are good so next time I shut down Thrale I'll upgrade it. Given the usual sort of uptimes I have, this may be a month or so.
Anyway, with Ploor upgraded and running I've got Windows, various AV programs, etc running updates. This may take a while.
