In article , Owain
wrote:
John Cartmell wrote:
... Friends designing new computers had a more interesting problem: their
machines used so little power that the standard PC cases inc PSUs that
they were using would switch off - they detected so little current draw
that the case electronics assumed the machine had been switched off!

Bright idea that no-one's ever thought of before (not): how about a hefty
resistor concealed in a spare drive bay to fool the PSU into supplying
enough current.

They finally found a PSU that would continue to operate at the appropriate
draw. Other friends producing a more recent design dumped the PSU idea
altogether and use a standard (external) adaptor giving 5v DC output for their
new desktop computer.

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