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

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Carlos Konstanski wrote:

> Power supplies have a safety breaker in them.  I've tripped them just by
> touching the case with sufficient static charge built up on my person. The
> breaker flips back after a lengthy period of time (half hour?), but you
> have to unplug the power cord.

   And I've had two power supplies fail over the years. First thing I'd do is
get a good power supply (I like the Antec quiet ones) and replace what's in
there.

Rich

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