Re: [MLUG] HP Pavilion power supply anyone?

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Have you thought about the heat option?  I just pulled an HP case apart 
last night, and though the outside of the case was covered in mung from 
a relative's house.  There was no case fan, and only a power supply and 
processor fan.  The inside of the machine... SPOTLESS.  It made me ill.  
A computer that's been running for years (500mhz) in a filthy 
environment should be full to the gills with dust and fuzz if proper 
cooling is being done.

I ask because we had a machine here at work that was being flaky.  At 
George's suggestion, we tried opening up the case, and being  a P4, not 
only did it stop rebooting itself, it also started running 10 times 
faster.  We've not coordinated to get a case fan yet,(were getting two 
in push pull), but we will.

The same goes with the powersupply... If it's overheating, it will flake 
out too.  Clean the dang thing out.  Get some canned air, or, if your 
confident enough, open the thing up and do it right. (avoid Caps).

  //Christian

Venkat Chandra wrote:

>I have an old HP Pavilion which uses a 100W Bestec ATX100-5 power
>supply - apparently these were made specifically for HP Pavilions
>(that's what the guys at Columbia Computer Center/Fera/Personalized
>Computers told me). Anyways, this machine has been acting up lately.
>It powers itself off after 10-25 minutes and I think the problem may
>be with the power supply. I was wondering if anyone has one of these
>old machines lying around in their garage or storage that they are not
>using and if they'd part with the power supply -- of course, for a
>reasonable price.
>
>Thanks,
>Venkat.
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