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

[Keith Ward]

My psychic powers tell me that there is a strong possibility that a
discussion regarding underrated and swollen capacitors is about to
emerge ...


--- Bill Baker <bill_chris at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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?
> 
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