Help, my comp is dying or dead

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Originally Posted by toranokaze

is the mulimeter similar to an Ohm meter.

Multimeter measures ohms, volts, and amps. It displays a measurement with at least three digits. You would be using its DC Volt function; 20 volt range.

If CPU fan is not working, still, CPU would at least boot. If AMD processor does not overheat too fast, then damage would not occur. It would just crash.

However this is getting too far ahead. First get voltage numbers.

Attach black lead to chassis or push the probe into the nylon connector to contact any black wire (from power supply). Touch the red probe to purple wire. Read and record that voltage both before and when power switch is pressed. Do same for green and gray wire. Later, do the same thing for any one red, orange, and yellow wire. But first, learn what those first three wires report on the meter.