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| 664319 | 2008-04-30 08:21:00 | Had a bad experience with a psu today..... unpacked and setup a new Acer pc a lady had brought back from asia. I forgot to check the psu voltage .......bugger......well thats what I said when I plugged in the power and it went ZZZZZZZZTTTTTT........ Bloody thing was, (of course) set to 115v......grrrrrrrrrrr.......dead psu...... new one supplied......bugger anyway having a look at the info panel on the side of this thing.....and this is what I saw: PSU: Untitled_00011209540275.jpg (www.imagef1.net.nz) (27 KB) I was frankly disgusted at the 250w rating and the rail amperage rating.......bloody cheap crap probably worth about $15 to Acer in bulk...what rubbish.....I pity anyone who adds another hdd or similar... |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 664320 | 2008-04-30 12:47:00 | hope your client paid for it then... Reminds me of the time I came back from Japan and plugged in my lovely stereo, tv etc, turned them on via a plug box and zap zap zap... I learnt my lesson |
zcc (50) | ||
| 664321 | 2008-04-30 16:12:00 | UM........Well the client offered.........i'm gonna go her 50.50 after all I'm 'supposed' to be a qualified and experienced tech (which i am) so really its my fault.......but my take on it is that had she gone and plugged it in herself she'd be paying all of the repair/replacement cost....... it wasn't her fault.....but since she offered....and a new psu cost me $90 (ouch)....... |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 664322 | 2008-04-30 22:24:00 | If 250w is sufficient for the PC, I don't see anything wrong with it. I dont think Acer had upgrading in mind. Most branded pcs even have a tamper sticker to ensure the case is not opened. My 320w iCute psu has only 16a on a 12v rail, and have 4 ide drives running off it. Having said that, my current pc is 6 years old. The only thing wrong with the psu is it is noisy. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 664323 | 2008-04-30 22:40:00 | bloody cheap crap probably worth about $15 to Acer in bulk...what rubbish..... And look at the rest of the components in it. More rubbish. I get more Acers in here than anything else - with hardware problems. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 664324 | 2008-05-01 00:29:00 | Haha! I was waiting for pctek to come along and put the boot in to Acer again. :p Any brand-name PC will be the same. HP/Compaq, Lenovo, Dell etc. Don't think I've ever seen a decent PSU in a brand-name PC. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 664325 | 2008-05-01 00:31:00 | I dont think Acer had upgrading in mind obviously not........and i've been told by others that that particular brand of psu is total crap anyway |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 664326 | 2008-05-01 01:53:00 | Haha! I was waiting for pctek to come along and put the boot in to Acer again. :p Any brand-name PC will be the same. HP/Compaq, Lenovo, Dell etc. Don't think I've ever seen a decent PSU in a brand-name PC. No, but some HPs had decent motherboards. Some others even have decent hard drives. Acer consistently has crap everything. drcspy - you should have ensured you blew it up totally and gone 50/50 on a whole new decent PC. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 664327 | 2008-05-01 02:14:00 | No, but some HPs had decent motherboards. Some others even have decent hard drives. Acer consistently has crap everything. It probably depends largely on which manufacturer of the parts will give them the best deal at the time. I have seen a few Acer machines with Seagate hard drives. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 664328 | 2008-05-01 03:42:00 | you should have ensured you blew it up totally and gone 50/50 on a whole new decent PC. errrrrrrr.........lol.......it IS a brand new pc.......not 'decent' tho but she's only an 'average' user and very happy with it.......now it goes.....with it's new psu... we went halves.......I thought that was fair enuf... |
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