Power Supply Problem?

Egypt9 · Post by **Egypt9** » November 24th, 2004, 9:16 am

So a friend wants me to fix his computer. says hes having a hard time getting a new hard drive to install, so i tell him bring it on over. Pop it open...obviously they didn't set the Master/Slave jumper on the drive right...so i set that right, pluged it all in, and went to go turn it on. For some reason when i push the power butten, the lights in the front light up for all of 3 seconds, then shut off- fans dont start, nothin. I
Few things I tried:
1) pressing down/gently reseating cables case i bumped something
2) Disconnected drive for the sake of it, nothin

So its my friends pc, im a bit leary to call him up and say 'hey guess what, you need to spent $50 bucks on new power supply"..while I'm fairly sure this is the answer...i wanted to run it by some other people first.

Right now i dont know a whole lot about it as he hasn't even dropped off the motherboard book *as far as i knew it ran when it left the house and i was just fixing a hard drive issue* Now i've seen this model of case before, i bought one similar to it and when my wife powered down the pc one night, it blew- Powmax brand....took it to the shop fearing the worse...pretty much, Power supply was Grade A crap. Barely had anything to it but a board and a lil coil to it, light as a feather. Had a nice solid one replaced in it, works like a charm now

So i'm thinking about buying a power supply tester, since I know this brand is known to have problems...should i just tell him to buy a new power supply anyhow? if it doesn't fix it i'll still be preventing a future explotion right? thoughts plz

Nolano · Post by **Nolano** » November 24th, 2004, 3:48 pm

Maybe not an explosion, but probly several of his computer components wil be saved. Its not uncommon for cheap PSU's to go out and take components with them.