[iyonix-support] Re: Power supply? Probably solved?
- From: Alan Adams <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:37:18 +0100
In message <3a4a1b7650.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5 Jul 2009 Matthew Thompson <mt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In message <4A4F85B6.10307@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
> I think I've found the source of the problem, as far as it applies
> here, anyway. We went out for a brief local walk, before
> S(WMBO)+(WILAC) got glued to Wimbledon, and, behold, in a neighbouring
> street, three holes in the ground and a trench, all now filled in,
> belonging to BT. I had reached Richard @ Orpheus by phone yesterday,
> and he had said that the symptoms pointed to a line problem, and he
> does seem to be right.
On the other hand I had pretty well the same symptoms yesterday as
well, either very slow or timed out connection, sometimes the PC
worked for a bit, sometimes the Iyonix. Mail seemed to be mostly OK,
news failed all day, and browsing was very hit and miss. It all came
back to life later in the day. So unless you're in the same street as
me, I think Orpheus had a problem...
> Now, the really odd bit ... I'd just finished transferring Messenger
> and its friends and relations to VRPC via a memory stick (memo: next
> time remember to put them all in a zip first!), and was beginning to
> feel reasonably at home with Thunderbird, when there was a sudden
> burst of activity of the light on the router which belongs to the Iyo.
> Crossing my fingers, I fetched with NetFetch, and down came all the
> messages! :-)
> I have no explanation as to why the Windows machines could connect
> intermittently yesterday and the Iyo couldn't, or why the Iyo's access
> both failed and came back in the middle of a session, as they did, and
> not at start-up. Can anyone think of what BT might have done to
> explain this?
>>> I'm no expert, but from what I've read, this seems to point to the power
>>> supply. Now, considering that I'm an electronic idiot, where do people
>>> suggest I get a new one from (CJE?), am I likely to be able to fit it
>>> without mucking up the computer, and are there idiot-proof instructions
>>> anywhere?
>> I got my Iyonix power supply replacement from CJE , so they will be
>> definitely able to help there.
> Now, some more advice, please. Do I get a new power supply now, in
> case this is a false dawn, or is it all explicable as a line problem?
> TIA,
> With best wishes,
> Peter.
--
Alan Adams, from Northamptonshire
alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.nckc.org.uk/
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