[SunRescue] Tim Ranting

[Chris Drelich]

I somehow lost a screw on the power supply to my IPX.  It was no longer secure.
 It fell on top of the motherboard and various other electrical things.  Not good.
Chris

Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 01:38:53PM -0800, Taren wrote:
> > This is the way it is in most of the older sparcs (SS1-20) that I've worked
> > on...
> 
> I've *never* had a Sun/SPARC machine lose a power supply... at my last
> job (which was mainly HP and SGI boxen), due to the fact that the building
> had flaky power during the summer, and that management was too cheap to buy
> UPSes ("Because the head office doesent have them either..."), I had to
> replace 2-3 Indy power supplies a year.
> 
> However, they recently got tired of paying SGI's list price (or even a
> reseller's used price) for replacement power supplies (which now, you
> can get an entire used Indy for the cost of a power supply from SGI), and
> went and bought *USED* APC UPSes for all the boxes from the local goodwill
> computerworks..
> 
> Any power protection is better than none, though.
> 
> Bill
> 
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