Flaky Machine??? Check Power Supply!
Straight_Man
Geeky, in my own wayNaples, FL Icrontian
I mean the power supply part both ways, both house circuit into computer at wall outlet and also the internal one. voltages should not be coming in at a regular rate of over or under 9% from nominal of 110 or your PSU will be reacting by giving the computer garbage as far as internal voltages beyond what it normally did when brand new.
If three checks an hour apart tell you that you have voltages out of this range you need a UPS or if under possibly a line conditioner. Right now 550ES small black UPSs (APC brand) are about $50.00 at Sam's Club Warehouse close to me. They should be that price through December here, bottom line, as APC runs rebates in late fall to early spring.
They come with Powerchute software and NIC-> Serial (DB9) cable and will protect a machine for 7 -8 min of dead power if you have a 400 Watt power supply and do not plug a monitor also in, or a box that runs well with a 350 Power Supply and with a normal 17" monitor. If you NEED a USB cable to plug into the computer end call the toll free number, get with Tech support, tell them model UPS and that the computer end has to be USB and they will have correct cable to you free in a week to ten days and you can keep old cable you got.
1100 Watt Backups Pros, at Sams, were about $126.00 with tax when I bought one 2 weeks ago and sold my Mom my 6 month old 550ES for $30.00 due to Florida's endemic bad power. My 1100 Backups Pro protects a P4 and a Barton 2500 box and my 17" monitor. My inkjet printer is also in it on the surge protection only three socket area, as is my scanner.
If three checks an hour apart tell you that you have voltages out of this range you need a UPS or if under possibly a line conditioner. Right now 550ES small black UPSs (APC brand) are about $50.00 at Sam's Club Warehouse close to me. They should be that price through December here, bottom line, as APC runs rebates in late fall to early spring.
They come with Powerchute software and NIC-> Serial (DB9) cable and will protect a machine for 7 -8 min of dead power if you have a 400 Watt power supply and do not plug a monitor also in, or a box that runs well with a 350 Power Supply and with a normal 17" monitor. If you NEED a USB cable to plug into the computer end call the toll free number, get with Tech support, tell them model UPS and that the computer end has to be USB and they will have correct cable to you free in a week to ten days and you can keep old cable you got.
1100 Watt Backups Pros, at Sams, were about $126.00 with tax when I bought one 2 weeks ago and sold my Mom my 6 month old 550ES for $30.00 due to Florida's endemic bad power. My 1100 Backups Pro protects a P4 and a Barton 2500 box and my 17" monitor. My inkjet printer is also in it on the surge protection only three socket area, as is my scanner.
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I run the main computers (not monitors or printers etc) off a 1400 watt volatge regulator and most my weird probs have vanished. I got it when I ate like 5 kt7's/and or cpu's within a few weeks and was going nuts with the failuyes and one day Rob punched in the toaster and all the house lights blinked. Turned out the power company was slowly losing a transformer deal on the pole outside and it ate a bunch of my electronics on the way out.
A voltage regulator is worth its weight in gold.
Tex