[Coco] Assistance please

[camillus Blockx]

What is so special on that presario that you can't use an other power
supply?

Shipping a PS to you cost more then order one new ps at newegg.com ( with
free shipping that is ).



On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Bill <cwgordon at carolina.rr.com> wrote:

> I hope this isn't going too OT, but I've received a lot of help from my
> Coco
> brothers. Now the power supply has given out, and I think that was the
> original problem. Even after completely disassembling the CPU fan and
> blowing it out, replacing the thermal grease, and upgrading the memory.
> Does
> anyone have a power supply for an old HP Presario 6540C?
>
> Thanks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> On
> Behalf Of jdaggett at gate.net
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 8:25 AM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Assistance please
>
> On 23 Aug 2012 at 22:41, Bill wrote:
>
> > Hehehe, when you're in the financial shape we're in, you'll use anything.
> > Even a Pentium III if you had tol
> >
> > Thanks. I'm gonna try putting a different fan and more thermal grease on
> > the processor, change out the memory, and see if it helps.
> >
> > I hope someone can find a second drive mounting bracket.
>
> One other note about some of the older motherboards, the internal bias
> software may or may
> not support very large drives say over 160GB or so. Unless the bias has
> been
> updated some
> will not support some of the real big drives like 500G to 2TB drives.
>
> Actually to just surf the net and do email, word processing and the likes
> and PIII or PIV is still
> a viable machine. I would even say that running some of the COCO emulators
> will still be
> successful.
>
> IF it gets you on the net then and on this group it is probably godd enough
> til times get better
>
>
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