Re: OT: power supplies suck

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 07:57, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> I just replaced yet another damn power supply.  This box had been
> working perfectly, sat for a couple of months, and then wouldn't boot
> up.  Luckily Kara had the good sense to suspect what was wrong...
> 
> Anyway, I don't mean to turn this into a sales pitch, but I did want
> to let everyone know that we're going to try to keep some power supply
> testers in stock.  They're like $15.  The one we bought for ourselves
> has already found two dead power supplies...

That's a big AMEN! In ATX systems there's just no way to tell whether
it's your PS or motherboard that just died -- without a tester.

--Doc


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