Preliminary Necrosy Report: Power Supply: Lack of Lubrication: Fixed and Dell is Proprietary [COLUG]

[Bill Baker]

On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:01 -0400, jep200404 wrote:
> The power supply turned out to be more "interesting" than I expected. 
> Read on for the Dell surprises. 
> 
> I got no signs of life from the power supply. 
> 
> The next thing to check out was the power supply. 
> Nudging the blades through the grill, revealed that 
> the fan was siezed. I opened up the power supply, 
> took out the fan and confirmed that the fan was siezed. 
> It was hard to rotate with my fingers. So I peeled 
> back the sticker over the hub, put a drop of oil on the 
> cheapskate sleeve bearing, and pushed the sticker back 
> down. I worked the fan back and forth by hand until 
> it rotated almost freely, then applied +12V to the fan. 
> It spun, slowly rising in speed until after a few 
> minutes, it was back to normal. It made a full recovery. 

Does this mean that the power supply was what was wrong with it?  If so,
I wonder why the new power supply I bought didn't fix the problem?