<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 28, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:woodbrian77@gmail.com" class="">woodbrian77@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:woodbrian77@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">woodbrian77@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>No, I haven't figured it out yet. I talked to Microcenter about doing<br class=""></div>some diagnostics. I'd be willing to pay the $40, but they won't let me <br class="">watch the technician. I want to make sure I walk out with the same <br class="">chip I walked in with and so forth. So I'm looking for another company<br class=""></div><div class="">to test the parts.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">I took the parts here<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://maxcomputer1.com/" class="">http://maxcomputer1.com/</a><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">He had a bench and work area and I was able to have input in the<br class="">process and watch what he was doing. His verdict was that the power <br class="">converter (supply) and motherboard are bad and that the cpu and ram <br class="">are good. He also charged less than Microcenter wanted.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">I was surprised the power converter was bad, but he checked it <br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">several times.<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I’m not. I commented on that item specifically. $10-15 would have confirmed that, but it would have required a functioning motherboard to be certain. Although you could have tested the PSU with a $5 multimeter and a paperclip (to short the “power on” pair) without much trouble.</div><br class=""></body></html>