Sudden shutdown

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Or one could take 30 seconds, use a meter, and then get useful
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Look, mister-I'm-not-an-EE-but-I-play-one-on-the-net,
you can't use a multimeter to test a switching power supply.
Or once could execute the comprehensive hardware diagnostics that
are only provided by more responsible computer manufactuers.
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What if the poor guy didn't buy his machine from a "responsible
computer manufactuer"? What if he's upgraded a card and the canned routines
fail anyway? What if the failed part is the disc drive with the diagnostic
partition, or it's a problem you can't diagnose with the useful but minimal
software the "responsible computer manufactuer" included?

It's hard to write diagnostics that can find a bad cable, for
instance.

The easiest and cheapest way to diagnose hardware issues in a simple
home PC is the swap in known good parts method.
 
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