Gateway Flexatxstc Bro Essential 866

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 (More info?)

Friend of mine has a Gateway Flexatxstc Bro Essential 866. That is
what it says in the back. Push the power on button it goes from
green to amber. I have herd that the Gateways have had some power
supply problems. Sounds like that could be the problem??

Unpluged everything and just tried to power it up but nothing. Also
blew out the dust real good but nothing. Started unpluging one thing
at a time but no change at all.

Is there a way to check for sure if its the power supply or not??

Thanks...

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 (More info?)

Yep, bulging and leaking capacitors are a very common failure for that
board. The power supplies are pretty bad too.

<ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
news:42480b3d.2890903@nntp.charter.net...
> Could be the power supply. Could also be the motberboard. Especially in
> the
> timeframe when these systems were built, some cheap motherboard
> manufacturers
> used even cheaper capacitors which fail often, rendering a motherboard
> dead dead
> dead... Ben Myers
>
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 05:13:27 +0000, swenson@gvtel-dot-com.no-spam.invalid
> (Kev)
> wrote:
>
>>Friend of mine has a Gateway Flexatxstc Bro Essential 866. That is
>>what it says in the back. Push the power on button it goes from
>>green to amber. I have herd that the Gateways have had some power
>>supply problems. Sounds like that could be the problem??
>>
>>Unpluged everything and just tried to power it up but nothing. Also
>>blew out the dust real good but nothing. Started unpluging one thing
>>at a time but no change at all.
>>
>>Is there a way to check for sure if its the power supply or not??
>>
>>Thanks...
>>
>