I have a DMM....just not sure where to hook one up at that would be
safe. Also, and more telling, the problem I have never seem to be
related to load...it can happen when the system is totally idle.
I do think that my old UPS was bad, though. I had noticed a couple of
times where it appears my house had a power outage or disruption. The
PC seems to be cycling power. But turns out it was only my PC...the HT
system in his same room was not experiencing any problems and neither
did any other system in my house. So, after the last time this happened
I finally hooked up my replacement UPS, a 1250 VA (I think) Back-Up APS
that's been sitting in here well over a year.
The problems seem to have happening a lot less after I reinstalled
windows, though, but they still seem to be happening.
On 1/14/2011 10:18 AM, Julian Zottl wrote:
Hook up a Digital MultiMeter (DMM - If you have one... if not, grab one.
They are only $15) on the rails. As you add load (throw a bench mark up of
some sort) the voltage on the rails should stay fairly steady.
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Julian
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Anthony Q. Martin<[email protected]>wrote:
How do you tell if a power supply is gone bad? I bought this Antec Neo
Power 650 Blue in September 2007. I can't see that I need more watts. It has
3 12V rails at 19A each, with a 5 year warranty. I have no real indication
that this PS is the problem in my system, though. By the numbers I don't
think I need a new one.
