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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: PSU in A4000 - Standard PC?
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 03:54:02 GMT
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
- Message-ID: <4f1akq$1rt@news2.delphi.com>
- References: <4ekq3s$oj9@nyheter.chalmers.se> <4eqnfd$g8s@nyheter.chalmers.se>
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- In article <4eqnfd$g8s@nyheter.chalmers.se>,
- d3daniel@dtek.chalmers.se (Daniel Hansson) wrote:
- >Daniel Hansson (d3daniel@dtek.chalmers.se) wrote:
- >
- >: I just can't stand the A4000 fan anymore, and plan to swap the whole
- >: PSU. It sure looks as a standard PC supply, but is it?
- >
- >OK, I'll have to answer my own question!
- >
- >No - it's not a standard PC PSU. But I think it's just the size that differs
- >(not sure about that).
-
- Not even that. There will be one signal from the PSU that you cannot replace
- from the commercial PClown power supplies. There is a special "tap" off the
- power lines that supplies 60Hz (50Hz) to a terminal on the motherboard for
- running the clock while the machine is booted. There is a jumper you have to
- move to make the thing work on the vblank signal instead.
-
- >
- >--
- > __
- >__///Daniel Hansson
- >\XX/ d3daniel@dtek.chalmers.se | Laws of physics do not apply to me...
-
- {^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
- jdow@bix.com, jdow@delphi.com, jdow@mci.newscorp.com
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