Troubleshooting

Your assistant technician calls you and says he suspects a bad power supply in one of your client's

system. He said the multi$-$meter readings are $12\mathrm{.}65$ and $4\mathrm{.}55.$

What should he do$?$

One of your clients has a very old Pentium III system with a single IDE hard disk drive and $512MB$ of

RAM. He has been using this PC as his backup workstation and has purchased a newer system and now

wants to redeploy the older system as a simple file server on his network. He has ordered a PCI SCSI

controller board and three SCSI drives, so that he can configure a RAID array, and an additional $2$ GB of

RAM. He also ordered two Y adapters for the power supply connectors. He asks for your advice about

any additional hardware he should order.

What advice could you tell him? $($Hint focus on power BUT don't forget other specifics that you have learned

about upgrading a system$)$