[OT]Hardware Sanity Check

[Peter]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, phil wrote:

> 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?

If one of the loose power connectors got to touch something or other 
then yes, maybe.

Peter
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