"K206b" <K206b@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Could a bad power supply cause one's tower not to boot up or have trouble
> booting up ?
If the PS has failed entirely...when you push the power button...
absolutely nothing will happen.
Of course there are plent of other things that could be wrong.
More rarely...a powersupply will partially fail.
In that case...the machine may start to boot...then before the OS even
loads...
quickly re-boot...
Again there are plenty of other things that can do that too.
The power supply is an easy enough thing to substitute...
and when you pull it out of the machine...if it smells burnt or if you can
hard a capacitor rattling around inside...
it's bad allright!