[Coco] Assistance please

[mike delyea]

That seems to be a micro ATX power supply for that machine.  Here's one on
fleabay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/eMachine-HP-Compaq-300W-Micro-ATX-Power-Supply-/350326587962

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Juan Castro <jccyc1965 at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's a weird electronics dealer* here in Rio who has a pile of
> +12/-12/+5/-5 supplies that go for about US$ 25 each. Does your PC need 3v
> anywhere?
>
>
> https://picasaweb.google.com/116274228261327807745/Fonte12125510A?authkey=Gv1sRgCPelnZOs6oC2IA
>
> * (By that I mean dealer of weird electronics, not weird dealer of
> electronics. Although the guy IS a little weird in fact.)
>
> Juan
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 12:45 PM, 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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