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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,977
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Len,
If the power supply is 3 years old, that means that the rest of the bits are at least that age, if not older. If the PS is dumping when you hit the eject button then its past its limits and needs to be replaced.
GET A NEW COMPUTER!!! These days you can get a new Dell for under $500 with a warranty, especially if you do not need a monitor. I build my own so its a bit less expenesive. I worked with a old P400 for years after returning to CONUS but after any computer is about 3 years old, its too old. About a year ago asked myself why I was wasting time with this old boat anchor and moved forward.
Bought a new AMD 2800 chip and motorboard for under $100, 1.5 meg of RAM for $120 and found a 120 gig, 7200 rpm hard drive for free after a rebate. Put it all together with three flat screen monitors and this puppy screams. Had been working with 512 meg RAM for years and just wanted overkill, and got it now. I barely hit the enter key and its already happened on the screen....
Time to look at a new computer! Worked with a Mac a bit sometime ago and just did not work for me. Will try Linux one of these days...
JoeA
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