[dba-Tech] Dead Comp

Rocky Smolin rockysmolin at bchacc.com
Sun Sep 11 09:12:49 CDT 2011


Dear Lists:
 
Came home after 5 days in Napa and Carmel to find only one comp had suffered
in the massive San Diego blackout.  Pundit's comp will not power up.
Meaning you press the on switch and nothing at all happens.
 
I don't think it was on during the blackout.  But we're going to open it up
this morning and see if we can eyeball something amiss.  It's an older box -
HP Pavilion a810h - and the most likely suspect is the power supply, of
course.  So a quick trip to Fry's for a replacement would be an easy fix.
 
However, I'm wondering, before I do that, if there's a way to test the PS to
see if it is really the failed component?  Don't have much here in the way
of tools other than a DMM.
 
MTIA
 
Rocky
 


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