[GLLUG] Holy Crap, My power-supply broke.

[Richard Houser]

Steven Sayers wrote:
> It was working , now it does not. When I try and turn on the computer it 
> moves the fan a half of an inch then stops then, all the surronding 
> parts are working however so it leads me to believe the powersupply went 
> funky. Any suggestions, this laptop is far from 'productive' and asking 
> my mother if I can user her laptop is asking for $2,000. It just aint 
> going to happen.
> 
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Did I misread that, or do you think your laptop Power Supply is bad?  If 
you are actually referring to a desktop, I have a small tester and I 
think a couple others have purchased them as well.  It will identify 
about 90-95% of defective power supplies.  Failed motherboards can look 
like this too.  If you were referring to a laptop, it doesn't really a 
power supply like you are thinking (the equivalent is the external power 
brick, and those can be easy to test).

Anyhow, I missed last meeting due to move-in and will be absent again on 
Thursday (driving a borrowed suburban and need to get the most out of 
it).  Unless something goes really, really wrong, I should be all 
finished with the move-out and most of the major move-in items in time 
for the 11th (unpacking is another story altogether).