Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <gregwallace@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, October 18, 2006 @ 3:46 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote:

>Greg,

>On Wednesday 18 October 2006 12:28, Greg Wallace wrote:
>> ...
>> >
>> >You need a multimeter of some kind, with test leads that have thin,
>> >sharp-pointed test probes at the end.  These test probes can be
>> >inserted right next to the wires that go into the power connector
>> >that hooks up to the motherboard.
>>
>> As I recall, all of the wires came out of one round hole, so it
>> probably wouldn't be possible to do this without pulling the lid off
>> of the power box to get to the source of the wires.

>No. You access the power supply leads on the pins of the connector that 
>attaches to the mainboard. And you do ti while it's connected to the 
>mainboard.


>> ...
>>
>> Greg Wallace


>Randall Schulz

So I check the voltage where each wire attaches to the motherboard, not at
the power supply source, is that right?

Greg Wallace