[OT]Hardware Sanity Check

[phil]

I know only enough about hardware that swapping boards and drives 
doesn't scare me...much.  So, I'd like to run a scenario past the group 
for comment.

I bought a new computer yesterday, took it home, connected the 
keyboard, mouse and CRT, and turned it on.  Instant white smoke and 
smell of burning plastic!  It's now back at the dealer.  According to 
them, "something" -- maybe a bad connector -- went wrong with an audio 
wire that hooks up to a speaker that's built into the case (for system 
beeps and such).  Apparently, they now need to move all the components 
into a new case...we'll see how that goes.

Two things strike me as odd: after 30 minutes of running time, it 
immediately died when next turned on (well, OK, maybe that's not so 
odd); but, is there really supposed to be enough *juice* running to a 
little internal speaker that could fry a foot or so of insulation that 
dramatically?

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Phillip Mills
Multi-platform software development
(416) 224-0714

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