Help with a Power Supply

Rumor has it that Jerome H. Fine may have mentioned these words: Sure there is - go into the BIOS of the PC (there's usually a prompt during POST - it's usually the DEL key, but F1 and/or F2 are becoming more common) and there's normally a menu entry called "Hardware Monitor" or somesuch. Go there, and you can see all the voltage levels that the PSU is putting out. [1] Oh, Waitaminit... You wanted a *usable* PSU test?!?!? Nope; gotta crack the case. You could possibly test for ripple on the +5v line coming out of the PS/2 keyboard or mouse ports, but to test 12V & 3.3V you'd have to crack the case anyway. BTW, some earlier AT & ATX power supplies were only switching on the 5v & 12v lines, so you didn't have to worry about minimum load on the 3.3v lines - but all that I've seen over the last 3 years or so are switching there, also; so when you're testing, don't forget to load 3.3v too. Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger [1] Should I put an "April Fools" there, even tho I'm a day late? (Not that that's suprising, tho...) -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers zmerch(a)30below.com Hi! I am a .signature virus. Copy me into your .signature to join in!