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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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| 554765 | 2007-05-31 22:42:00 | My PC's PSU died this morning. Just wondering if this is a common occurence? I've not had this happen to me in over ten years of computing, but this morning I go to switch on the machine and although the monitor went live, nothing else happened. A cursory glance at the back of the box showed smoke coming from the PSU vent, with a horrible acrid smell (which tends to make it obvious that the PSU has died). I bought the machine second hand about 18 months ago - it was a year old at the time, originally assembled by Assent. Not sure of the make of PSU yet, but I'll open the box later after a couple more coffees. Anyway, I feel gutted... Mr Reliable has let me down :( |
Greg (193) | ||
| 554766 | 2007-05-31 23:27:00 | Bugger, I hope it hasn't taken anything else with it... What is the PSU? |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 554767 | 2007-05-31 23:52:00 | Bugger, I hope it hasn't taken anything else with it... What is the PSU?Dunno yet... I'm about to check it's innards shortly. I guess I'll just get the Thermaltake PSU from DSE to replace it. 90 bucks which I wish I didn't have to spend right now. *sobs* |
Greg (193) | ||
| 554768 | 2007-06-01 00:23:00 | OK. He he, you don't HAVE to spend it :p you could go with out your PC :p but that is crazy talk... :rolleyes: |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 554769 | 2007-06-01 01:19:00 | 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 . |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 554770 | 2007-06-01 01:20:00 | OK. He he, you don't HAVE to spend it :p you could go with out your PC :p but that is crazy talk... :Indeed! I mean really - what am I ... an Island? No. I compute, therefore I am! :) |
Greg (193) | ||
| 554771 | 2007-06-01 02:08:00 | My PSU died a couple of days ago, taking my motherboard with it >_< Consider yourself lucky that it didn't destroy anything else! |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 554772 | 2007-06-01 02:23:00 | Consider yourself lucky that it didn't destroy anything else!I don't know that yet - it remains to be seen :( Bad luck though, in your case. :( |
Greg (193) | ||
| 554773 | 2007-06-01 04:41:00 | Well thats what the insurance compay is for. | pctek (84) | ||
| 554774 | 2007-06-01 05:07:00 | Well thats what the insurance compay is for . And they have something called an excess . . . probably not worth it for a PSU . Yep Greg- I had one go on me a couple of years ago, seemed it took the MB with it . A rebuild with a Thermaltake PSU and new MB etc did the trick (good reason to 'upgrade'!) The Thermaltake is a 430w 'Purepower' from memory, goes all day most days without a hiccup even though some people say they are 'over rated' . . . . or should that be under rated? Now you can convince Mrs Greg that you need something bigger/better/faster . . . if there's any way you can blame Pixel that would help :D |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
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