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Testing Power Supply?
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Don't want to be a wiseguy but your question raises several.
Power supplies can fail in several different ways. Only true test is to use a variac and have a load available so you can check for where the oscillator fails under different input and output conditions. Haven't seen many shops that can afford to test power supplies this way.
Do you have a PS that you suspect? If so, what are the symptoms? What hardware are you using? There are a multitude of hardware problems that could look like power supply problems but aren't. Ed Fair
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Power supplies can fail in several different ways. Only true test is to use a variac and have a load available so you can check for where the oscillator fails under different input and output conditions. Haven't seen many shops that can afford to test power supplies this way.
Do you have a PS that you suspect? If so, what are the symptoms? What hardware are you using? There are a multitude of hardware problems that could look like power supply problems but aren't. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply.
Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.
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Well the reason I ask is because my computer keeps rebooting. I've had this message on the forum before entitled "mysterious reboot". I dont know why it does it, for the most part my computer is fine but when i try to transfer files over from another computer it reboots. No indication lights go off either. It kind of happens out of the blue and Im not sure why.
If it doesn't do it except when transferring files then PS wouldn't be my first suspect. Network card isn't that much of a drain when transferring, at least more than in a static mode, which for a NIC isn't really static.
But a broken part needs to show up somewhere so it can't be totally ruled out.
What hardware, what software, and what is the power supply specs? Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply.
Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.
But a broken part needs to show up somewhere so it can't be totally ruled out.
What hardware, what software, and what is the power supply specs? Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply.
Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.
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A lot of problems are caused by dirty connections and dust absorbing moisture inside the computer.
You should not be able to make it crash by giving it a good whack with the palm of your hand.
Blow all the dust out with dry compressed air.
Have all the contacts of the ram and plug in cards cleaned with metho and a clean cloth and push them in and out a few times.
If you are technical, if there are any chips in sockets, prise them out slightly and push them back in but be careful you dont break anything.
If your computer
You should not be able to make it crash by giving it a good whack with the palm of your hand.
Blow all the dust out with dry compressed air.
Have all the contacts of the ram and plug in cards cleaned with metho and a clean cloth and push them in and out a few times.
If you are technical, if there are any chips in sockets, prise them out slightly and push them back in but be careful you dont break anything.
If your computer
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