Re: [Sheflug] Power Failure - Dead machine. What to check?

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On 31 Jan 2001 23:49:22 +0000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> Yup - don't go lickin' the big caps :-)


Yes :) I think that's how someone got the idea for a tazer. Although,
the funny thing is, I always used to check whether a PP9 was alive or
dead by giving it a lick ... hmm :)


> One of the caps in the PSU looks a little funny, but it's hard to say if
> its the cap dumping it's innards, or if it's just some sealant stuff.


Pop a multimeter across it and see if it charges. Actually, you really
need to remove it to do that and be 100% sure, but you're near enough ;)



> Strangely, the PSU is an AT, not ATX design - I thought all Pentium
> systems were ATX. Obviously not.


?? My P166+ sitting in front of me right now (48Mb RAM , thank you very
much ;) is very much an AT computer. AT case, AT power supply,
everything. No power management, it's not even a tower design. And yet
it's running Evolution, Gnome, Debian, etc.. all at the latest (pretty
much) revisions .. hehe.



Cheers,


Alex.
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