On 01/10/2013 03:13 PM, Jim Garrison wrote:
> On 1/10/2013 2:19 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
>> My test machine, a Gateway E-4500D that I got a couple of months ago at
>> Free Geek, has developed an odd power problem.<...>
> Swap out power supplies.  A power supply produces several different
> voltages (+12, -12, +5) that feed different subsystems.  One of
> these may be bad, so the place to start is with a different power
> supply.

I was afraid you, or someone else, were going to say that.

> One test you might try before that is disconnecting power
> from every internal device (hard disk, floppy, DVD) except the
> motherboard to see if you can get to the BIOS.

A project for this weekend. Sigh.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens

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