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

[David Fleck]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Aaron Burt wrote:
> Sounds bad, though maybe the power supply's good and the mobo isn't
> giving it the "turn on" signal.  You can bring the power supply (or
> whole computer) in to somewhere like Pacific Solutions or the FreeGeek
> Thriftstore (open 11-7 today) and they can plug in a tester.
> 
> I'd recommend Free Geek; you can buy a tested used power supply for
> peanuts, and even try it out right there in the store.
> 
> And BTW, they take credit cards now, so you could easily buy a whole
> replacement computer.
> 
> Always trying to help folks spend money there,
>   Aaron

That would be a simple matter if I still lived in the Portland area, 
unfortunately the trip from central Iowa would be unreasonable.

Thanks anyway-

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David Fleck
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