dusty, eh?
I was given a mission today. Rid a computer of all it’s problems (without just buying a Mac), something I haven’t done in a while. What seemed to be the problem with the computer? (pictured above) Well, it was dusty as HELL, but it was also bogged down by viruses and other mal-ware. (typical Windows stuff) What I found to be most painstaking was that the power supply was completely unable to power my external drive if it needed to write something, thus causing data corruption to the backup.
Any computer tech will know my pain the second I say that it was, in fact, a Dell.
It wasn’t just the computer I was working on today. I fixed up another computer (practically the same model) and it gave me the exact same problem with the power supply. So, here’s the thought: why put a PSU in a computer (whether it be Mac or PC) that will not be able to power everything the computer can offer simultaneously? I understand that the computer is not meant for the power user, but for low-end consumers, but it should be able to work at it’s prime no matter who’s using it.
One could argue that the age of the PSU would slowly make it less powerful (small pun, lol), and I see where you’d be coming from, but I’ve got computers as old, if not older than these two I’ve worked on in the past couple days that can power more than they can.
My diagnosis: it’s one of two things: either it’s a bad PSU or it’s an ID 10 T error.
Just as no one will ever know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop, the world may never know why these power supplies are bad.
PS: I actually fixed them both completely, minus the PSU problem
