Re: [TCLUG:5080] RE: Computer turn on

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

I've got a very nice surge protector designed for computers connected to
my computer, but maybe it wasn't enough. Don't UPS's start at over a
hundred dollars?

New info: when you press the power button the power supply give a faint
buzz and then nothing, sounds like a capasitor discharging. I think it is
the power supply, which is only $30 to replace.

Ben

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Scot Jenkins wrote:

> Whether or not the power went off, you could have gotten a surge.  I'd
> _highly_ recommend purchasing a UPS.  They're pretty cheap and save you
> tons down the road.  I have an APC and you wouldn't believe all the
> times I've been sitting at the PC and here the alarm go off when the
> power lines take some kind of hit.  Most times it's not even enough to
> knock the lights off, but it's a brown-out or a sag/surge.  Enough to
> destroy computer equipment.  My UPS has more then paid for itself in the
> 4 yrs I've had it.
> -- 
> Scot W. Jenkins <mailto:swjenkins@ibm.net>
> Unix Systems Administrator
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