A tale of Woe....

[Philgo]

I had a computer back that I built a couple of years ago, it wouldn't turn on. I suspected the PSU, so I disconnected it and tested it with my PSU tester and found that it was dead.

Luckily I didn't jump in with fitting a new one I thought I'd try a 'known good' second hand one first. Turned it on and got a nice smell of burning and said some naughty words.

Scratched my head and had a close suspecting a Mobo fault. Turns out the owner had tried to fault trace it himself and he had shorted the mobo out by connecting the power switch lead to the wrong header. Anyway a short rewire and a new PSU and it's alive again. I'm well annoyed about my test PSU though.

[jenae]

Hi, yes Philgo I am afraid many computer problems lay between the keyboard and the chair.

[rbc1100]

"Hi, yes Philgo I am afraid many computer problems lay between the keyboard and the chair."

I am inclinded to agree. I have two sitting here now that are fouled from spyware and other nasties due to questionable websites. This is one of the things I seem to spend most of my spare time doing now days. I hate to say teens and computers don't mix, BUT! I installed programs on these systems to help prevent this from happining but security is only as good as you allow it to be.

[Philgo]

Should this thread be marked resolved as I wasn't asking a question anyway?

[Philgo]

If you like...

I was wondering why this thread was marked as resolved, I didn't do it.

It seems unnecessary in a thread like this.