"Kevin Childers" wrote in message
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Got a friend selling these pretty cheap, thought I'd pass it along.

BTW, Early on I had a PC die, power seemed OK, but the mother board was
dead. Without a thought in the world about the power supply being the
cause I replaced the board and it promptly died. My buddy, who sold me
the board (new), told me a number of points where I must have screwed up
and placing my faith in him I said I'd replace the board (again) but after
saying the board may have been bad to start with. Taking this as an
insult to his pride, he took the a new board off the self, tested it,
installed it and it died. At that point he went looking for the cause and
found that the power supply was pumping some odd over voltages on the 5 &
12 volt circuits. Apparently not enough to kill the fan or the HDs, just
the mother board. He was some what embarrassed and as a way of joking
about it bought both of us pocket sized voltage test meters (still have
mine).

So in light of a number of recent post about power issues, I offer this.

KMC

20 Pin ATX Tester
CoolMax 20 pin ATX power supply tester. Quickly isolate and verify power
supply failures. Checks all ATX output voltages, +3.3V, -12V, PG, +12V,
+5VSB, -5V, and +5V via LED light. Also checks 4 pin peripheral
connectors, floppy drive connectors and ATX12V connectors for proper
outputs. Very handy and easy to use. Suitable for any ATX power supply
with 20 pin mainboard connector. Instructions stamped directly on tester.
Retail packed.
Availability: Usually ships the same business day
20-pin-atx-tester price: $9

There is like 1 to 100,000 chance you will ever benefit from such a device.


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Bill
2 Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2
3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux