[PLUG] What's the best way to troubleshoot severe and sudden hardware death?

[David Fleck]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Galen Seitz wrote:
> Are the fans spinning?

No.

> Do the LEDs on the keyboard flash?

No.

> Any beeps from the speaker?

No.

> If you have a voltmeter, check a disk power cable.  Yellow to black is +12V.
> Red to black is +5V.

Hmmm. Yellow to black: 0.07V.  Red to black: 0.01V. Don't see any obvious 
fuse or breaker on it - is it necessarily hosed, or might it have a 
problem that can be easily fixed?

> 
> If you think power is good [...]

Apparently not.

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David Fleck
david.fleck at mchsi.com