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| Thread ID: 79768 | 2007-05-31 22:42:00 | My computer suffered a heart attack | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 554785 | 2007-06-04 00:34:00 | PSU failure is currently the most comman hardware failure . its simply due to large amounts of cheap and nasty PSU's being used and idiot cost cutting techs useing undersized PSU's to save a few cents . i've got an old p1 (100mhz?) system that has a better powersupply than most pc's have gotten over the last 5 years . Power Supply Failure . H'm makes me think . Is it the motor in it that failed? Because if it is then you may have grounds for an insurance claim . My insurance company did have (and may still have) a tiny little line buried in the small print which said they accepted claims for electric motors that failed . It was years ago that I last used it and it was for something I thought they would not accept . But they did . Read your small print! Trouble is that these days you generally are responsible for the first $50 or so . Tom |
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| 554786 | 2007-06-04 00:50:00 | Apart from the tiny motor in the fan/s, PSUs don't have motors. | Greg (193) | ||
| 554787 | 2007-06-04 01:32:00 | Isn't that what he meant? The motor in the PSU failed, the motor powers the fan, the fan is for cooling, the PSU got hot because the fan stopped turning, the PSU got hot enough to fail and smoke, the motor failure was the cause of the PSU burning, therefore Insurance Company pays out. Simple really. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 554788 | 2007-06-04 01:56:00 | Isn't that what he meant? The motor in the PSU failed, the motor powers the fan, the fan is for cooling, the PSU got hot because the fan stopped turning, the PSU got hot enough to fail and smoke, the motor failure was the cause of the PSU burning, therefore Insurance Company pays out. Simple really.Yeah that's possibly what he meant. Unfortunately it wasn't the case in my situation. Anyway, will see what AMI have to say tomorrow. | Greg (193) | ||
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