Sylvere said:
I have a six month old Pentium 4 E Machine and lately have to boot it up
several times before it'll stay up. I would rather change the power supply
instead of going thru the hasle w/ warrantee. I do believe problem is with
power supply since it works good once it's up. Any feedback? Thanks.
1) The power supply in my cousin's Celeron eMachine (T1840) just died,
so I don't think they are very good quality (duh, it's eMachines). It
was a Bestec 250-12E.
2) How much longer are you under warranty? By opening it, you will
probably void it.
3) It's not too hard to do it yourself, once you've got the case open.
Just follow common sense (disconnect everything from the case, touch the
outer part of the case to discharge any static you may have before
touching anything else, etc).
On my cousin's I only had to loosen two thumb screws to remove the side
panel (the one on the left looking at the tower from the front). After
this, just look carefully at where the cables are connected, I'll assume
you know what a power supply looks like. There were two for the
motherboard (a large, wide P1 (2x10 pins), and a smaller, square, P8
(2x2 pins)). There were three P6 (1x4 pins) connected to the hard drive,
DVD-ROM, and CD-RW drive. And there was a single P7 (the thinnest one of
them all), for the floppy drive.
All of these go in only one way, so it's not hard to connect/disconnect
them. After disconnecting everything from the power supply, I connected
the new one while outside of the case, just to make sure that was the
problem. If it is the power supply, then you can proceed to install it
permanently. There are four screws holding the PSU, and they are
accessible from the outside. Once they are removed, the PSU is loose,
and the new one can be isntalled.
It's not too hard from here, just do everything in reverse.
