Hi Kurt Tried to reply to message sent to my support email address but message could not be delivered.
First of all my experience Electronics from 58 to 83 when I turned my attention to Computers. I am a qualified computer engineer up to Cisco standards and belong to both professional organisations who certificate Computer Engineers in the UK. I run my own business supplying built to specification Computers amongst other thing to a variety of business organisations and also to the Civil Service here. I do all the repairs on these and other Computers within these organisations. Because of the high reliability of the Computers I build I can easily cope with the few that go faulty but as I repair other makes I have extensive knowledge in the way to diagnose faults. I am not an amateur, although the same can't be said of my FoxPro Programming/grin Now to your problem. I understand that you have other Computers available which are working. My first line of diagnosis would be to se a power supply tester but as this is not available I would take out the suspect Power Supply and plug it into a working computer. It is not necessary to unplug the other power supply from the hard disks etc only to plug in the multi plug and if its a Pentium 4 machine then the 4 pin plug with yellow and black wires. If it works then the problem is not the PSU. Put it back in the faulty machine. Now leave out all the other plugs so that only the Mother Board is plugged in. Is it works then a peripheral e.g. a hard disk is overloading the PSU. If still faulty then remove, reseat, the Memory and the CPU. Still not working its either the CPU or the Motherboard. If you want to go further let me know, I can ring you on my internet phone, no charge to USA. Also don't worry as with everyone on this list services are provided free. Cheers Peter -----Original Message----- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Wendt Sent: 12 February 2010 23:01 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: RE: [NF] Woe is ME with My DEAD PC... Thanks Carl - I am definitely going to check into the CPU fan possible problem this weekend! -K- -----Original Message----- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Carl Lindner Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 4:49 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: [NF] Woe is ME with My DEAD PC... Recently, I had a similar problem. The fan was full of dust so was the heat sink. I bought a new fan and heat sink and the thermal compound for the cpu. If I remember correctly, it was around a $20 expenditure. Pulled the cpu cleaned it and put it back together. Works fine. Carl -----Original Message----- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Wendt Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 2:53 PM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: [NF] Woe is ME with My DEAD PC... Hey there ProFox gang, I got a bit of a Hardware problem - and I am no HW expert by any stretch of the imagination. That being said - I did build from scratch my last 3 PC's - the 1st 2 being Athlon based and my last one going back to the Intel chips. [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/a57fa4cf19531343a2ee11b57db8e3af100...@server.peterhartcomputers.local ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
