Quote Originally Posted by josh1980 View Post
..... Honestly, from the stuff I see the company I work at pay for investigations, you'd be talking at an absolute minimum probably around $50,000. Although I wouldn't be surprised if the price was over $100,000.
We are not talking mega sophistic equipment that might be required to investigate a failure in a nuclear power plant. Move the decimal place over three places and I suspect you will get a closer ball park figure. Either way it doesn’t hurt to ask for a quote and chances are anyone with expertise in the field will give you a good idea of what the problem was just by looking at the photos.

Silverstone only used basic equipment to check the power supply and stimulate a voltage overload to see if the PSU tripped out. One of those bits of kit they used is a Fluke 289 Multimeter, which costs around £400. I’m certainly not knocking Silverstone, at least they made the key checks, but the cost side of this is not a big issue, in fact it’s a complete non-issue, because anyone manufacturing electrical goods will have access to test equipment that they use for their QA. The issue is piece of mind to know what caused the problem.