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| Thread ID: 77668 | 2007-03-18 04:15:00 | Something in the PSU blew up but the computer is running just fine... | qazwsxokmijn (102) | Press F1 |
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| 533966 | 2007-03-18 18:17:00 | Along this same line, I had a fellow ask me to look at his little electric clock, as he said it too had smoked "a little" the other morning. As he was standing over my shoulder and watched me pull out the security Torx® screws from the case, a rather large bug fell out, having been well cooked and probably the source of "a little" smoke. He was rather astounded, as was I when he said: "Ah..now I see what the problem is...the caretaker died!" |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 533967 | 2007-03-19 01:34:00 | Oh boy. You think you are a consultant! Did you not know that computers run on smoke? When the smoke leaks out then there will be a fair chance the computer will die. Please note that this is very much tongue in cheek and I hope I am not offensive to you. I'd like to know how the computer is running fine given the above. I suspect others are also reading this with interest. Not sure what you are referring to here Sweep?, the 'oh boy' statement was in ref that this guy who swaps his motherboard out didnt appear to know what a spacer was, and I'm thinking, this guy has too much money or didnt think to read his installation manual. I am currently wondering if he did in fact use spacers and how the system is stall running! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 533968 | 2007-03-19 01:41:00 | :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: computers run on smoke yeehaaa what a hoot i cant stop laughing. | Hitech (9024) | ||
| 533969 | 2007-03-19 02:17:00 | All electronic devices run on smoke, When the smoke escapes the item is dead. I thought everyone knew this. | Metla (12) | ||
| 533970 | 2007-03-19 05:02:00 | Hey all, thanks for the input. I took it to QMB today and the tech guy said there's nothing wrong with it, as the PC is running just fine. And by fine I mean as if nothing had happened to it. It may have been some fried plastic shrapnel that accidentally got into the PSU when my father was drilling a hole near the PSU (I told him to remove the friggin PSU first!!! But no, he didn't listen to me). |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 533971 | 2007-03-19 05:20:00 | What was he drilling holes for? :eek: |
pctek (84) | ||
| 533972 | 2007-03-19 05:23:00 | For the smoke to escape. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: |
Hitech (9024) | ||
| 533973 | 2007-03-19 09:28:00 | Hey all, thanks for the input. I took it to QMB today and the tech guy said there's nothing wrong with it, as the PC is running just fine. And by fine I mean as if nothing had happened to it. Sorry to bust your bubble, but it is definitely NOT ok. Sparks and smoke mean the destruction of one or more components, and those components are almost certainly part of (or associated with) an overload sensing network. Yes, the PSU will run ok while on normal loads, but if anything goes wrong in your computer, or the mains voltage takes a hike due to a power surge or you suffer a brown-out, the supply may not shut down to protect itself and you may lose your motherboard, cpu, ram etc in a catastrophic runaway sequence of failures. I have probably repaired in excess of 2000 switchmode power supplies over the years (not for computers) and I have seen many self-destruct when their inbuilt protection systems failed. I bet the QMB "tech" just ran it on a normal supply from the mains, and that won't tell you squat about whether it will cope with winter sags, surges, brownouts, spikes and all the other rubbish that happens on our powerlines. Power supplies are cheap, replace it. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 533974 | 2007-03-19 10:13:00 | Sorry to bust your bubble, but it is definitely NOT ok . Sparks and smoke mean the destruction of one or more components, and those components are almost certainly part of (or associated with) an overload sensing network . Yes, the PSU will run ok while on normal loads, but if anything goes wrong in your computer, or the mains voltage takes a hike due to a power surge or you suffer a brown-out, the supply may not shut down to protect itself and you may lose your motherboard, cpu, ram etc in a catastrophic runaway sequence of failures . I have probably repaired in excess of 2000 switchmode power supplies over the years (not for computers) and I have seen many self-destruct when their inbuilt protection systems failed . I bet the QMB "tech" just ran it on a normal supply from the mains, and that won't tell you squat about whether it will cope with winter sags, surges, brownouts, spikes and all the other rubbish that happens on our powerlines . Power supplies are cheap, replace it . Cheers Billy 8-{) Wow, that actually scared me . Literally . The tech guy at QMB said that the drilling of the hole could well be the problem . Some of the plastic shrapnels must have found their way into the PSU and got themselves lodged between capacitors and blew up on contact . . . or so he told me . I don't think QMB would lie about it - he didn't charge me anything, and if he was the money-eyed type, he would have said something is definitely wrong with the PSU and made me buy a new PSU . Still, Billy, I will take your words into consideration and take it to ETC this week . Oh, and I need to say that my PSU is not some cheapo one . It's an Acbel 500W . One of those rich PSUs with safety features and triple +12V rails . Sells for about $170 new I think . |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 533975 | 2007-03-19 10:36:00 | "plastic shrapnels" (whatever they are...) - are unlikely to have done the deed as plastic is usually an insulator, but mettalic swarf from the drill sure would. | godfather (25) | ||
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