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

[Keith Ward]

Now I have to admit that my psychic powers have never worked
properly...


--- Keith Ward <rkward at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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