Dead computer?

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:00:10 -0500, JJO wrote:

A tester such as the following is not only cheap but very easy to use. I am
not sure if it was suggested but for what it's worth, I'll add this link.

http://www.atruereview.com/powersupply_tester/index.php

Regards,
John O.

I have a tester that let's you use a meter to get the actual voltages.
But, you can't have it hooked to the motherboard since, like this tester
you show, you plug the power supply directly into it.

Patty

You have other obsolete equipment. Stuff that probe into
the connector of one obsolete power supply. Nylon expands and
holds probe in place. As probe is removed, then nylon returns
to original shape. Worry more that you will have a heart
attack. Stuff that probe in. Notice no damage. Do what we
have been doing long before you even existed. Somehow I feel
I am watching an episode of Fear Factor. Its only a probe.
Stuff it in and read the numbers - when power is off, in the
seconds that power is turned on, and as power stays on.

Patty wrote:
Tonight I thought about just using black electrical tape and taping
a paperclip to the probe to make it longer and thinner. You think
that would work?

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:43:37 -0500, Patty wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:12:37 GMT, sbb78247 wrote:

56K internal??? My fax modem is a 28k external - you must really be up with
the times.

I just sold the majority of my old junk around Christmas to a guy that
wanted a system for his kid, P4/1.7, 80g hd, 845 based mobo, antec case,
52x cdrw, 512mb mem, basically a hotrod from 4 years ago. They were happy
and I got some coin out of the deal.

S

Oh, I wish you could see the boxes of junk I have. Would you believe an
old 120MB hard drive? Yep, it was top of the line in its day. I got a
386SX board in a box if anyone wants it. ;o) This computer I'm looking at
is turning out to be quite a dinosaur too. Just checked the hard drive.
Seagate Medalist Pro 2520 (2.5Gb) so, I think the ole 200Mhz might just
work out fine for her. I'm gonna stick a Diamond 4MB video card in it and
floppy drive and see if it will boot up to a floppy. Then we'll go from
there.

Darn, I gotta get rid of this old junk! ;o)

Patty

If you really get longing for the old days, I can send you some of my old
double spaced 10meg MFM or RLL drives. God only knows why I still have them.
Perhaps during the summer I can strip all conceivable spare screws and connectors
from them and ditch them and the cases. I've gotten marginally better over the
years; don't think there's any more 13" green monitors in the attic...
Last time I talked someone into taking one of the 10meg drives was over 10
years ago when I ran a BBS. Two kids across town wanted to run doom. Turned
out they had a dual 5½" 360K drives and no hard drive...
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Patty wrote:

On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:58:39 -0600, David Maynard wrote:

You're over complicating it. All the voltages are relative to ground (the
black wires) so you find a nice convenient ground location and connect the
negative (black) of your meter to it (the black wire on a hard drive
connector is a good spot and the probe tip usually just goes right into the
open end). Then you just need to probe the wire in question with the meter
positive lead. Your problem is getting to the 'backside' of the power
connector when it's plugged in, which is where the paper clip comes in. You
can try holding the paper clip onto the meter probe and touch the other end
to the wire in question or, what I do is get a jumper wire with alligator
clips on each end (radio shack has them) and clip one alligator onto the
probe tip and the other to the paper clip. Then you use the paper clip as a
probe (or any other small enough conductive object).


Tonight I thought about just using black electrical tape and taping a
paperclip to the probe to make it longer and thinner. You think that would
work?

Patty

Alligator clip leads are cheap and easy to get at Radio Shack but taping it
might work. Especially if you use the tape simply to keep it in place on
the probe and then use that spot as a finger grip, meaning your fingers
keep enough pressure on the two to make contact.