William Chops Westfield wrote:
> > IMO, the power supply provided with a system ought to be sufficient
> to have you fill all the available bays in the box, and all the
> connectors on the power supply.  Unless your upgrade involved
> "Y cables" and add-on mounting brackets (or dangling drives), it
> should have worked.
>   
.
Yes, well, I happen to agree with you!  :-)  I added a 160GB SATA 
harddisk drive, is what I added.  I think  that the power supply that 
came with the system should have supported it.  It did not.  That is  
the entire reason for the original posting, which was essentially a 
gripe that Dell is shaving their margin.  I have used Dell equipment 
since  they started, and never had a problem with adding stuff before now.
.

> > Furthermore, a power supply ought to react better to an overload
> than just burning out.
>   
.
The next step will be to take  the old power supply apart and see if I 
can figure out what went wrong.
.

LTA, BJ

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