[iyonix-support] Re: PSU possibly on the way out?

In message <081c47a74f.james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          James Peacock <j-peacock@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> For the last few months I've had intermittent freezes from my RISC OS 
> 5.13 Iyonix. This seems to occur mostly when performing disc intensive 
> operations such as backing up from one hard disc to another or 
> creating an ISO image.
> 
> When a freeze happens, everything is unresponsive. The HD light is 
> constantly on. Pressing the reset button does not restart the machine, 
> there is no beep. I haven't had any network problems.
> 
> Has anyone had similar symptoms? My suspicion falls upon the PSU, so 
> I'm thinking of replacing it. Can anyone recommend a make or model, or 
> ones to avoid?
> 

I had similar symptoms last year. I made the fault and bought myself
a second hardsic for backup purposes. It was a Seagate Barracuda.
Unfortunately it was a 7200 rpm disc. Fast, hot and bad. First I had a
curious smell of burned electronic one warm day and then the locks
occurred again and again.

I thought of the PSU and measured. But it was ok. Next I thought of
USB problems. Of course I excluded the hard disc for it was so new.
But it was broken. I replaced it by a Samsung meanwhile which doesn't
caused any trouble until now. Some week agao my good old original Maxtor
harddisc began to fail. But what a difference compared to the Seagate!
It died slowly. It had problems at spin up and afterwards it started slowly
but at the end it always found back to old speed. So I was able to
save all the data (Yes the Iyonix works fine with three drives connected to
it!). I replaced it by a Western Digital. And yes downwards to the discs I
installed a big fan now (which doesn't seems to make much noise). No problems
until now!

Best Regards

Thomas Milius


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