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Article #9182bad power supplies (was: Problems with my Dell)
From: Paul S. R. Chisholm
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1990 14:54
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1990 14:54
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In article <75971@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, tim@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Timothy H Smith) writes: > I've had the machine about 20 some days and already have had 2 > motherboards replaced. I'm no hardware guru, but that sounds like a bad power supply to me. If it is, you're likely to see more inexplicable hardware failures as time goes on. Does anyone know if there's any way to test a power supply (other than hooking it up to an expensive mother board and seeing if it blows?-) > Timothy Smith, tim@vonneuman.math.uakron.edu Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T Bell Laboratories att!pegasus!psrc, psrc@pegasus.att.com, AT&T Mail !psrchisholm I'm not speaking for the company, I'm just speaking my mind.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!dptg!pegasus!psrc From: psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: bad power supplies (was: Problems with my Dell) Summary: any way to check for a bad power supply? Message-ID: <4417@pegasus.ATT.COM> Date: 23 Jan 90 14:54:54 GMT References: <75971@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 18