On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 18:59 +0100, Lindy Mayfield wrote:
> One of my older servers just died.  How can I check to see if it is the power supply?
>  
> I know that sticking my multimeter into the wires probably won't tell me because if I understand correctly it needs to be under a load.  Could I bend the wires of a resisiter, clip my multimeter onto them and then plug the ends into the power supply plugs?  If that would work, what value resistor would I use?

Assuming it's ATX, short the green wire to ground. Most supplies no
longer need a load to operate correctly. To be sure a HDD is a perfect
load.

TTYL
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