> On Jul 28, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com <mailto:woodbrian77 at gmail.com>> wrote: > > No, I haven't figured it out yet. I talked to Microcenter about doing > some diagnostics. I'd be willing to pay the $40, but they won't let me > watch the technician. I want to make sure I walk out with the same > chip I walked in with and so forth. So I'm looking for another company > to test the parts. > > > I took the parts here > > http://maxcomputer1.com/ <http://maxcomputer1.com/> > > He had a bench and work area and I was able to have input in the > process and watch what he was doing. His verdict was that the power > converter (supply) and motherboard are bad and that the cpu and ram > are good. He also charged less than Microcenter wanted. > > I was surprised the power converter was bad, but he checked it > several times. I’m not. I commented on that item specifically. $10-15 would have confirmed that, but it would have required a functioning motherboard to be certain. Although you could have tested the PSU with a $5 multimeter and a paperclip (to short the “power on” pair) without much trouble. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150728/37677396/attachment.html>