Can you help me figure out what the lighting fried in my computer. : )
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Thread created 07-12-2012 by 01txaggie
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OK, we are backing everything up to an offsite place and then we are planning to do the test here. I was waiting to do anything until the back up finished. We backed up the critical things to a flash...
Can you help me figure out what the lighting fried in my computer. : )
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I've seen many RS232 ports suffer only partial damage from surges. They'd still work but only at slower speeds, like under 10 K baud, and give lots of errors at 50K - 100K baud. The damage was...
Can you help me figure out what the lighting fried in my computer. : )
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Thread created 07-12-2012 by 01txaggie
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There are PSU testers available for purchase, or the other option is swapping it out with the PSU from another machine, just to try it out, depending on how much time you have on your hands.
Can you help me figure out what the lighting fried in my computer. : )
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Thread created 07-12-2012 by 01txaggie
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STOP and backup the hard drive first. What you're describing is exactly what happens right before a drive dies. If the data is valuable and not backed up, you need to copy it right away.
DO NOT...
Can you help me figure out what the lighting fried in my computer. : )
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Thread created 07-12-2012 by 01txaggie
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...with the AC unplugged, first using the ohms function to check for leakage between the high voltage side and low voltage side. Keeping those sides isolated from each another is a holy standard...
Can you help me figure out what the lighting fried in my computer. : )
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Thread created 07-12-2012 by 01txaggie
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Ok I will run the disk check this evening when it isn't in use in the shop. Is there a way we can check the psu, it is a few years old so I can't return it. My husband can check voltage and such I am...
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This last week our shop power pole was struck by lighting twice. The computer is one that I built and I had installed a rs232 serial port card, which was used to drip feed our cnc's. I also had a usb...
Can you help me figure out what the lighting fried in my computer. : )
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Thread created 07-12-2012 by 01txaggie
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I am just guessing but the power supply is proabably weak they are also easily returnable so I would start there
Can you help me figure out what the lighting fried in my computer. : )
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It may very well be the power supply being so weak that it's slowing down the computer, as Komondor mentioned. I've seen it happen myself, but unfortunately, that costs money to find out, so I would...
Can you help me figure out what the lighting fried in my computer. : )
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1) I have had little success from psu testers, often psu's will pass on the detector but fail when it has a load on it.
2) you can also do the same as a tester with a multimeter as seen here
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