Re: AIC7(censored) card gone wild?

[jw schultz]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 09:01:08PM -0700, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:
> > From: Matthias Andree [mailto:[e-mail]]
> > On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:
> > 
> > > So I wonder, what does that error mean? SCSI1 has attached a
> > > CDRW (Sony Yamaha CDRW 8/4/24) but now it doesn't show up
> > > anymore (and so, I cannot get the model). .
> > 
> > The first step towards finding that out is power cycling (shut down,
> > switch off for a minute, then start up again) or physically
> > disconnecting the Yamaha drive (if it's Yamaha).
> 
> And clean up and check all of the fans, cables, connections,
> connect, disconnect ... nothing changes. Something is hosed
> up. The three years w/o downtime are biting back now.

You may want to replace the power supply.  Most PC power
supplies are junk and some time after a year or two start
drifting out of spec.  Out of spec power supplies are
responsible for more hardware failures than probably
anything else.

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