Hello, Jean.

 JP>   How are you today Jim ?

I'm OK.  You still at Kamouraska, and did you get any high tides from
that hurricane which crossed the gulf of St. Lawrence?

 JH> What I'd like to have for ATX PS testing is a box with
 JH> multi-lightbulbs, and pin points for reading voltages, which would test
 JH> all of the various voltages at one time, during reasonable power
 JH> loadings.

 JP>  Newer systems have a BIOS option that gives all these readings. It is
 JP>  called here: Mainboard monitor and on booting, before it gets to
 JP>  loading Windows, on the BIOS screen, I can see all this, fan RPMs,
 JP>  core voltage and all.

A good thing to remember, but what Paul Rogers had asked about was a way
of testing PS without putting a mainboard at risk, and that was what I
was thinking about also.

 JP>  That PRG that I mentioned to you, Aida will also give you all this
 JP>  information but you need a MoBo that has these pickup points. Find one
 JP>  and keep it at MCF. But as you say, if it boots after one beep all is
 JP>  good, I would say.

I wouldn't put one of those newer boards there at MCF for the 'day crew'
to use for testing "unknown" PS, here in central Florida, the
"lightning capital of the world".  I will admit that such a board might
be of some value testing a PS which "seems" good, but is in a system
which has been acting flakey, but we are usually so tickled to find a
board like that that we try to get it in a working system and send it
out for use at our early opportunity.  Our ATX test bed board is for
Intel types, and just covers up to PII 450MHz or so.

Right now, my wallet sphincters are still puckered up a bit after I took
in an AMD Duron 700 chip for use in testing "unknown motherboards", and
it turned up "dead" after trying with only 2 or 3
"unknown" boards.

- - -  JimH.

... "Bother!" said Pooh, as his 'puter started acting flakey as Wheaties.
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