Re: [OT] Fried motherboard
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Rich Puhek wrote:
>
> > probably. I've never had a power supply die on me. maybe I'm lucky.
> > I've even plugged a power supply that was set to 110V into a 220V
> > circut, tripped a breaker, but the power supply itself was fine(haven't
> > tried going the other way around).
> >
>
> I've done that (220V setting on a supply, plugged into a 110V outlet).
> Just acted like a dead supply.
I worked on an old XT or 286 system at the high school back in about '93,
machine would boot up to the end of the POST, and then hang. Took a few
minutes to notice that the switch was set to 220. After that, first thing
I'd look for on a school system that was being fixed, was the voltage
selector.
Mike
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