A weird power supply issue cost me an entire afternoon

I had a client's PC that would boot for a few seconds then die. I swapped the RAM, the CPU, even the motherboard. Nothing worked. I finally found the problem after 4 hours: a single slightly bent pin on the 24-pin power connector on the PSU itself. It was making a bad connection. I carefully straightened it with tweezers and it fired right up. Has anyone else seen a PSU connector cause that much trouble?

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the_diana1mo ago

Ever check the wall outlet for weird voltage?

alice_barnes351mo ago

Wait you can actually check that? How do you even do it?