[Shop-talk] Dead PC

[Fred Katz]

My neighbor had the same problem, brought his PC to me to troubleshoot. He
also had his PC plugged into a surge protector, but the PC died. Power supply
seemed dead, I recommended he buy another. Then he read somewhere about a fix.
Plug the power cord in with electricity going to the PC. Then pull the power
supply cable from the motherboard socket, wait a few seconds and reconnect the
power supply cable to the motherboard. I told him that is supposedly dangerous
and is exactly what you're not supposed to do. We did it, and his PC came back
to life. Happened  to him again a few weeks later, and the "fix" worked again.
However, he did take my advice and bought a new power supply.

Fred -

On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Jim Stone <jandkstone99 at msn.com> wrote:

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