Power supply needs to be fixed!

Yes, thank you Mayer for your response. The LED diagnostic would be helpful but they did not light up. So am guessing the power supply is bad. I removed the power supply and I can see at least one bad capacitor. I have not yet changed the capacitor - that is totally a new experience for me. Once I switch it out I was hoping I could check the power supply with a pinout chart but I don't know where to get one and how to interpret it. I only know that a "pinout" of the power supply is supposed to be the way that a person checks a power supply.

China was clearing these out last summer for about $25 each for brand new ones. I have spent a lot of time over the years trying to repair a few, mostly to no avail.

Hi mayer,

Thanks again for your response. It sounds like you don't think it's worth trying to fix the power supply. Am I hearing you right? To some degree I will have to agree with you because the power supply is in pretty bad shape. I am attaching a photo for you to look at. I've already removed one bad capacitor but my main concern is in this area of the power supply. You can see the resistors have been burned out. Any hope of fixing this? If there is a chance I would like to try for it.

Bin it, get a new PSU. They're cheep enough and that way you'll know it is working.

After you've worked with certain models for years you get to know what to try to fix and what to replace. On this model the order of failure is the PSU, GPU, inverter and then the hard drive. I would just replace the hard drive.