[rescue] Dead SS20- need advice

John Ruschmeyer jruschme at comcast.net
Wed Nov 13 08:57:39 CST 2002


Well, no sooner do I start a quest for a second SM51 (501-2754), then I
discover that my SS20 had died in the night. The box appears dead,
nothing spins up if I hit the power switch, etc.

Since the box is somewhat full (352MB RAM, 2 drives (4gb Fujitsu+9gb
Seagate), 3 SBUS cards (TGX, SunVideo, PCMCIA), internal CD-ROM), I'm
guessing that it is either a power supply failure or a heat-related
failure.

Anyway, before I go running off to ebay for another PS, I figured I
would ask some advice:

- Is the power supply really the likely problem? If not, what else
should I be checking for?
- Are there different/better revisions of the SS20 PS that I should be
looking for?
- Anybody have a cheap SS20 PS that they would be willing to part with?
(Cheapest I've seen on ebay would be about 18.00 including shipping.)
- Does it really seem like I've overloaded the box?
- Any advice on steps I can take to keep it from failing again?

Thanks...
<<<john>>>



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