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JerWA Prince
Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Posts: 1497 Location: WA, USA
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:18 am Post subject: |
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Bit late, but you can buy a power supply tester on the cheap at most electronics stores. I actually recommend keeping one in your parts bin anyways, to test every PSU before hooking it up to anything. Only takes one bad PSU frying everything it's connected to for it to become habit.
Here's a rather good one for just $15:
http://www.frozencpu.com/psu-165.html?cid=prf _________________
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Lloyd M. Prince
Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Posts: 521
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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Lnkwizard2 wrote: | One way to test a the new ATX power supplies is to pull all power connectors to the Mobo and assorted drives and stuff and hook up a spare cooling fan or a sacraficial HD to one fo the molex connectors. If you use a fan, connect it to the 12v line. If you want to get real fancy you can hook up a bulb from a 3-cell flashlight to the 5v line. Then making sure the PS is plugged in, connect the green wire on the mobo connector to a ground wire and the fan should spin up and the light will turn on if the PS is working right. Since I support shrubbers for a living, I made a little test jig for just that purpose. Saves many headaches. |
Cool. I like it. _________________
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Lloyd M. Prince
Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Posts: 521
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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JerWA wrote: | Bit late, but you can buy a power supply tester on the cheap at most electronics stores. I actually recommend keeping one in your parts bin anyways, to test every PSU before hooking it up to anything. Only takes one bad PSU frying everything it's connected to for it to become habit.
Here's a rather good one for just $15:
http://www.frozencpu.com/psu-165.html?cid=prf |
Good idea. _________________
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