.A couple of weeks ago my power supply gave up the ghost. Off to make a cup of coffee, come back to a blank tv screen and a very bad smell. PANIC sets in, switch everything off. I feel the power adapter and it's super hot. My first thought is despair, then anxiety, what has it done the the Dragon's delicate chips. After a short trip down the denial (i'll wait till it cools down and try again), despondency and then the acceptance route, I looked at my options.
I moved from the UK to Australia 6 months ago (of course I shipped the Dragon) so waiting for a power supply from ebay that someone would ship to OZ seemed unlikely and expensive plus I may have a dead dragon. Decided the best option was an older PC power supply, Yesterday I wired it up, and I'm pleased to say my dragon has survived a 24 hr burn test, running a program peeking random memory locations.
I've managed to keep it tidy by putting 1 cm cut in the ribbon cable from the internal PS Board to the dragon motherboard (pin1-4), removing those pins from the PS board and connecting up to a 4-wire cable that runs through the hole left by removing the 9-pin power socket on the PS Board. My PC power supply has a switch so no need to rewire the dragon switch. The Dragon motherboard is still attached to the Composite monitor out and the Modulator as before.
The reason for this email (apart from the need to share the relief) is that I'm sure this has been done up and down the country, so my question, Is there anything I should be looking out for with using this method that would spoil my fun? I'm planning to run a 3.5 drive I have using the PC power supply along side the two 5.25 drives i have that run from their own supply.
Thanks
Paul
