I know plenty of PC users who have ventured as far inside the entrails of their machines as installing extra RAM, a new DVD drive, and maybe a graphics card, but who wouldn’t think of venturing further, to say, replace a motherboard or a fried power supply. These and other seemingly gnarly hardware upgrades are not that much more challenging, if you’re halfway sober when you’re doing it and you carefully follow decent instructions. Lifehacker’s Rick Broida offers such instruction for replacing a power supply in today’s Alpha Geek column.
He’s got some good tips in there, like taking “before” pics of the existing installation to make sure you hook everything up properly with the new power unit. Such uses for digital cameras can’t be stressed enough. We all have the damn things on our phones, on our belts, but rarely think to use them as a memory jogger/reference keeper (at least I don’t).
