I could use some help with what seems to be a BAD power
supply. For the past month, I started to experience more
and more frequent crashes of the system. About 2 weeks
ago, I figured that it seemed to be the power supply and
I started to use an external power supply for the 3 hard
disk drives. That solved the problem and a few days ago,
I replaced the internal power supply so that now the 3 hard
drives are back on the new internal power supply with the
rest of the system (and it is now very quiet again since the
external power supply had a noisy fan!).
Since I am not Tony Duell, I will just be tossing the old
power supply. However, before that, I would like to
know if there is a simple way to test the old power
supply to determine if that was the actual problem?
Please don't mention anything that requires me to open
up the old power supply. I only have an old analog
volt meter and could put a few light bulbs into a test
circuit, but that is about the limit! It really is not that
important, but it sure would be interesting to know if
that was the specific problem.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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Received on Fri Apr 02 2004 - 09:11:45 BST