{"id":7766,"date":"2020-07-02T09:28:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T16:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T22:37:29","slug":"how-to-test-and-replace-desktop-pc-power-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/how-to-test-and-replace-desktop-pc-power-supply.html","title":{"rendered":"How To Test and Replace Desktop PC Power Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<link href=\"\/idogjs\/icss\/font-awesome\/css\/ifotorama.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\"><script src=\"https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.11.3\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/idogjs\/ijs\/ifotorama.js\"><\/script>\n<p><em>My sister&#8217;s PC died due to bad power supply, it&#8217;s been over 10 years. When we push the power button, the cpu and case fans were on but the motherboard doesn&#8217;t power up. We ordered a new power supply from Amazon for $25, replaced it and everything is fine now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IT3LHC-Kcko\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class='fotorama--wp' data-allowfullscreen='yes'data-ids='7781,7780,7779,7778,7776,7777,7775,7774,7773,7772,7771,7770,7769,7768'data-link='file'data-itemtag='dl'data-icontag='dt'data-captiontag='dd'data-columns='0'data-size='large'data-width='600'data-auto='false'data-max-width='100%'data-ratio='1.3333333333333'><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7766 gallery-columns-0 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a 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PS\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_ps_05.jpg' data-full='https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_ps_05.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_ps_05-200x112.jpg\" class=\"w3-image attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Slide the PS forward to remove\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7769\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7769'>\n\t\t\t\tSlide old PS out\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_ps_04.jpg' data-full='https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_ps_04.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" 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When we push the power button, the cpu and case fans were on but the motherboard doesn&#8217;t power up. We ordered a new power supply from Amazon for $25, replaced it and everything is fine now. \ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1409,797,1406,1405,1408,1407],"class_list":["post-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building-pc","tag-apevia-power-supply","tag-desktop","tag-molex-connector","tag-power-supply","tag-replace","tag-test"],"views":231,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8869,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions\/8869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}