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Computer becomes unresponsive, inverter problem?
I'm running an old p2 system on a 200W inverter and it has started behaving oddly. The computer runs flawlessly when I run an extension cord into the trunk, or for the first few minutes when I run it off the inverter with the car running. Then usually a few minutes into driving the music stops and I am unable to reconnect to the computer.
The problem is that I use a PDA to stream music from the computer in the trunk, so it's hard to tell exactly what is going wrong. When the stream cuts off, I can't browse the network or remotely log into the computer. I know the computer isn't going to sleep or powering down the wireless, because it works just fine off of house power.
The part that kills me is that I ran nearly the exact same system (except for a new motherboard) in the glovebox and it worked fine. Change the motherboard and move the computer to the trunk and kaput. Argh! Was the old motherboard just more resistant to inverter hiccups?
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