Ryan Coleman writes: >> On Jul 28, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I took the parts here >> >> http://maxcomputer1.com/ <http://maxcomputer1.com/> >> >> He had a bench and work area and I was able to have input in the >> process and watch what he was doing. His verdict was that the power >> converter (supply) and motherboard are bad and that the cpu and ram >> are good. He also charged less than Microcenter wanted. >> >> I was surprised the power converter was bad, but he checked it >> several times. > > I?m not. I commented on that item specifically. $10-15 would have confirmed that, > but it would have required a functioning motherboard to be certain. Although you > could have tested the PSU with a $5 multimeter and a paperclip (to short the > ?power on? pair) without much trouble. I've remained surprised and enough so that today I tested the power converter in one of my other computers. That computer worked fine for the 15 minutes or so I left it on. Now I'm not sure what to think about the rest of what he told me. I think I believe him about the motherboard being bad and I want to believe him about the cpu and ram being good, but ... -- Brian Ebenezer Enterprises - In G-d we trust. http://webEbenezer.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150802/47a35d08/attachment.html>