James Sweet wrote:


"Roy J. Tellason" rtellason@DONTSPAM MEpa.net wrote in message
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Any of you guys had much luck working on these? Are they worth bothering
with, for the most part? Got two dead ATX supplies here, and a bunch of
the earlier variety that I'm still using. g


They're not worth fixing for money,

About what I figured...

but I repair them sometimes just because I can, or because it's 1am and I
need a working power supply.

Yeah, that's the thing. I have and use a lot of older hardware here,
mostly "AT" rather than "ATX" and this was my turn to try and bring up an
ATX box. Only had floppy drive and MB connected and only ran it for a
couple of hours at most of test time when the damn thing quit on me. I've
got another one headed this way, but am gonna putz with this thing so I
can have a spare, maybe. I sure don't intend to put much in the way of
time into it.

Lately I've seen a lot of capacitor failures, but lots of other stuff can
go wrong.

This doesn't strike me as caps, though -- seems too sudden, for one thing.
We'll see if I get anywhere with it or not.