Well, I hate to put this up as my first post but it's come to my attention (and this isn't the first time) that Gateway PCs suck! LOL I was working on this customer's All-In-One Gateway 610 media center PC that had a faulty power supply. Diagnosis was fairly easy, so I ordered the part. It came in last week, I installed it, it powered on so I did all the appropriate Windows updates and cleaned her PC up from some malware and annoying tracking cookies.
Today she calls back that it doesn't turn on anymore! WTH?! Of course I tell her to immediately bring it back in so I can take a look at it. Guess what? Dead PSU once again! So I did some research and it turns out that this particular model has had various issues with bad, underpowered PSU. (According to some forums I encountered here.) The culprit is a Delta Electronics PSU, model: DPS-185JB-1A REV: 00. It's only rated for 185 W MAX output! There's no way that an all in one only uses this much wattage. There is a REV: 01, so I'm gonna see if I can get a replacement from the company I ordered it from. The only other solution is to create an external PSU for this ALL-IN-ONE! Kinda ironic, I know! According to all the blogs and forums, Gateway has been useless on this matter. This won't stop me from contacting them tomorrow and see if they have a viable solution for me. I also found something about there being a REV: 01 version here, so I'd like to get one of those to see if it fixes the issue. I'll keep you guys posted.
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