Down to the bare metal

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

In other words, Dell or Gateway will sell you a crappy machine, with a few bundled debugging tools to help you figure out what is so crappy about it. Did the tool help find the bad power supply tw?

The highest failure rate computers were, far and away, clones. I basically undermined an alternative source of income by getting these victims to replace those disasters with brand name systems. In at least one case, the adult was so stubborn that the kids finally had to demand change. The adult considered those failures as normal.

Meanwhile, you tell me. The computer does not power. So why would I execute diagnostics? Obviously, one might waste time shotgunning the power switch, power supply controller, and power supply. Or again first collects facts. In but under two minutes, the power supply was identified as reason for that problem by first using a standard diagnostic tool. It took longer to remove the problem.