<G> I should say that we moved to back to Brazil from the UK where we lived for 23 years. We decided to bring back all our belongings including our electrical appliances which are 220v (long story, but was to our advantage) as used in Europe. Here in Brazil, the area we live in is 110v (some cities have switched to 220v) but we do have 220v (triphase) coming into our power box, so we were able to to rewire the house without much trouble. As to the dual voltage power supply, I do not live in a town but up in the mountains outside Rio... not that many computer supply stores around here so had to order one! Lil ----- Original Message ----- From: "T. Hunt" <ilrover@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 10:29 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Back online Fascinating! I've never seen a power supply that didn't have a 110v/220v switch on the back. but then again, I live in the US. And I would love to know why you rewired the whole house for 220v, unless you live in an area that uses 220v as the default voltage. (And then why wasn't the house wired that way to begin with?) Just curious. Tom Lil Cruz wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am back online after nearly 4 weeks without a computer... We had a very > bad thunder storm which fried my power supply, modem and network card. As > my computer is 220v and here everything is 110v it took me a while to find a > dual voltage power supply (we rewired the whole house for 220). I feel very > proud because I was able to do all the hardware by myself and get > everything working also :o)) All I needed was to have the broadband tech > come reconfigure the network card coz I had no clue how to go about it! > > Sorry if I didn't reply to messages, including one from Chris regarding the > downloading in Windows. Just wanted to say that your tip worked, Chris, > thanks a million :o)) > > Regards, > > Lil > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 4/1/2005 -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk