Any suggestions, please?

[Basil Chupin]

On 11/09/2010 01:48, Li Li wrote:

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> Basil: sorted = "sorted out," -- problem solved. I don't think that's
> an Americanism.
>    

It's certainly nothing that I have come across here in Australia.

Perhaps in the UK where they speak Cockney-speak and other Celtic 
tongues - with the occasional good old King's/Queen's English thrown in 
by a few hundred citizens?


> I guess not, but it sure does look like a bum PSU.  You're right,
> generally cheaper to just replace the thing and hope that there isn't
> anything awful on the MB causing it to fail.  Any decent modern PSU will
> have a "crowbar circuit" which should turn it off if it sees a dead
> short.
>
> Do you have another PSU that you can substitute or another old MB that
> you can test the suspect one on?

The only other "decent" PSU is in my wife's computer and in the computer 
I am now using.

I haven't done any testing today as I thought I would do (mentioned in 
last night's post) so the jury is still out.

But I will have to do it by no later than Monday when I will be taking a 
trip interstate, and have the opportunity to buy a decent PSU at a 
reasonable price from the shop I usually do my "shopping".

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> We used to say "I'll just fix it the American way -- hang in parts until
> it starts to work."
>    

Yeah....while many people are getting "used to it", but not all like 
myself and my wife, the American way of contorting, mangling and 
torturing the English language is quite painful :'( .

Not that long ago some American, on a TV programme - politician or a 
reporter or some such mammal - came out with the word, "physicality". 
Both my wife looked at each other and said, "WHAT?!".

This was worst than the "technicolor emissions" stated in some (?)CIA 
document some years ago to mean "vomiting".

BC

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