In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 4 Aug 2020 22:09:43 -0500, Rene
Lamontagne wrote:


I see that ones that do fit are only ..... not so cheap. $44 on
Amazon, $20.55 on ebay, ...less for refurbished, which in this case
probably means just "used". What can they refurbish? They blow out the
dust?

You do not want refurbished power supplies.

Okay


Any chance the connectors for those other power supplies I have will fit
and I can just run with one of them (and the cover not on the case)
until I see if it works better with a better PSU? Then I'll buy a new
one. .

The connectors on an ATX drive may or may not be compatible with your
PC, Can't tell without knowing what brand and model of PC and
motherboard you have.

I'll go pin by pin as Andy suggests.


But the advantage is that if there is a hardware problem, and not a
software problem, I can use the disk clone I made just as the problem
was starting, and I'll be back where I was.

Rene


Another way to separate software and hardware problems without
changing hardware is to download a Live Linux distro and install it on a
DVD or Flash drive and see if it runs fine with that, Any distro will
do, a Good small distro is Zenialpup 7.5 , If it crashes with that then
it is probably hardware, If it runs consistently good then it is
probably your Windows setup or other 3rd party software.

This is very intersting, and I'm going to do it even though there is no
special reason to distrust the Hware anymore.

Do Not install the Linux distro to your hard drive, Run it from your DVD
or flash drive.

Gotcha.

Thanks and thanks all.

But as I said in another post apparently a lot of software is still
installed. I hope I didn't waste your time. I got a lot out of it.

I'm too tired to reinstall windows again right now, but I still want to
do the thing above with Zenialpup,

Rene