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How To Determine Defective Power Supply If Not Dead Set.

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Hi everyone! Today's topic is about power supply again. I am going to tackle about this power supply problem because I want to share this knowledge I acquire from my experienced in repairing desktop computers. List of Power Supply Problems * Black Out or Dead Set. * Blown Power Supply Unit. * Power Supply Shuts Down After Few Seconds. * Noisy Power Supply. * Intermittent - Sometimes runs smoothly but most of the time cpu won't power up. * Black Out or Dead Set * This problem is the easiest to detect of all power supply problem. * Blown Power Supply Unit * This problem also is the same as black - out or dead set. Power supply does not produce any power because the fuse and other parts were blown. No current or voltage is passing in fuse. You could smell the burned parts from the back of the power supply. This problem in power supply could be repaired but you have to change many parts to reuse the power supply again. * Power Supply Shuts Down After Few...

How To Know If An External Videocard Has A Problem

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Most users cannot determine what is the problem of their computer if there is no display on the screen and always call for technical support of the vendor if their computer is still under warranty. But this topic give you an idea on how to know if your external video card has a problem. All motherboards today are manufactured with built-in video card that sometimes this video card is more powerful than its external video card. Latest motherboards has a high end built-in video card that within six months to one year external video cards are no match to this latest motherboard built-ins. Every six months or less companies are employing high end chipsets to their latest motherboard models thus making it advance to its competitors. Sometimes most game fanatic users add another speed up to their computer, the external video card. But some video card sometimes fail that causes our computer to blackout.  So how do we know if our computer is still working and the problem is on our ...