Hi Ralph,
If you've a meter and the odd bit of wire, perhaps from Arduino
development, then
Tutorial: Suspect a Dead PSU? How to be sure
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic55506.html
may be of use. Hardware's not my forte but it looks like reasonable
advice.
There's also
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/learn-to-re-fuse-a-power-supply/1053277
but you may not feel comfortable giving that a go.
Out of curiosity, did this stop working around the time of the
Bournemouth floods?
Thanks for the link but I don't have the equipment for the first one and
I certainly don't feel comfortable with re-fusing a power supply...
The power issues first started a few weeks ago I think but I'm not
actually sure what the issues were exactly because I don't use that
computer and my partner hadn't mentioned it to me until today, when it
was impossible to actually boot it (the computer was last booted
successfully yesterday).
Sean, thanks for suggesting to use another power lead, I hadn't thought
about it but unfortunately, it still didn't work :-(
Anyway, I have now taken up Terry on his kind offer. This PSU was
changed 5 years ago and last time, the same thing happened, which is why
I am fairly confident it is the PSU, though of course you can never be
100% sure until you actually test or change the unit itself.
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