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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
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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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
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I'm not speaking for the company, I'm just speaking my mind.