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Old power supplies never die. They just fade away into the landfills. Nobody
ever repairs power supplies any more.
When I recently serviced an IBM Pentium 4 system under warranty, IBM first
overnighted a new power supply. When the replacement power supply did not fix
the problem, they sent a new motherboard. The motherboard had a return shipping
label, but when I asked, the IBM tech support guy said to keep the power supply.
It would have cost IBM more for me to return the power supply than it costs per
power supply to ship a pallet full of them from (where else?) China... Ben Myers
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:06:28 -0800, "A & L" <tpsdoc@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks for everyone's help. It was the power supply ... went to Fry's
>Electronics and got a replacement ... was worried about form factor but a
>little jury rigging works wonders. Does anyone refurbish old power supplies?
>
>
><ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
>news:41ba757f.9823510@nntp.charter.net...
>> You don't know whether its a power supply or a mobo failure until testing
>> with
>> known good components. For example, plug in another power supply and see
>> if the
>> motherboard works. Or pull the power supply and bench test it with a
>> known good
>> motherboard.
>>
>> Regardless of the power supply form factor, it has an ATX power connector.
>>
>> ... Ben Myers
>>
>> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:38:16 -0800, "A & L" <tpsdoc@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>In a previous post, we mentioned that the fan turned on but the BIOS
>>>didn't
>>>post .... well, now it's a dead system.
>>>
>>>Questions: Is this a power supply problem (motherboard has already been
>>>replaced with good capacitors)? Is this an ATX form factor power supply or
>>>completely Gateway proprietary?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>
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