Perhaps it's not such a great investment for someone of your
experience. You're the one who accurately surmised that the processor
or motherboard was bad when this thread was first started. But I want
to keep learning about what is going on inside computers so I can
better understand them. I don't
Here is a list of items.
Memory. (This can be diagnosed either on board or by pulling)
Video Cards. (Again same method)
Modems. (same or disable on board modem IF POSSIBLE)
Add in cards.
Newer motherboards have a lot built in them which causes me the
willies, because if one of them go bad
Well, one disconnects everything and either gets to the BIOS or
doesn't. If you can't, you replace it (after testing the PS
obviously). I dunno, maybe I've just been lucky, but I'm having a hard
time imagining a failure this board would tell me about that I
couldn't already have diagnosed via some
Large IT places wouldn't spend the money on the item, time to diagnose would
cost more in their labor then to just replace the whole unit. Plus large IT
departments have multiple units so they can swap parts out to test them.
Mike
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a little dongle that attaches to PS to tell if they are
powering up. YOU need a more expensive one to see if you are getting
enough and the proper voltages out of them.
In reality, if one PS is not working swap it out and see if it works.,
For really big shops it makes sense. For
