Andrew Underwood

Damn shoddy power supplies

So yesterday I was in the middle of a time trail in Colin McRae Rally 2005 and my computer shut off with a loud click. I quickly determined that it was the power supply. It came with my case and was just a 350W one. So I went to a computer store and bought a new 400W power supply, it cost more than the case itself. After installing the new PSU I couldn’t get my hard drive to be recognized during POST. I fear it might be fried… So today after work I went and got a new 160 GB drive. I just finished installing Red Hat Fedora Core 4 Linux. I usually install Windows first but I couldn’t find my disk. Anyway, sweet sweet Internet has been restored. I haven’t been having good luck with hard drives lately. Perhaps I will consider a redundant RAID array.