OT: BAM!, brother's computer died out of nowhere. |
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OT: BAM!, brother's computer died out of nowhere. |
bd1308 |
Jan 22 2006, 08:56 PM
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Sir Post-a-lot Group: Members Posts: 8,020 Joined: 24-January 05 From: Louisville,KY Member No.: 3,501 |
so i was downstairs setting the parents up with a nicer DVD player when my mom comes down the stairs yelling "something popped and the upstairs smells like burnt metal"....
go upstairs and sure enough it smells like bad burning metal or something. well I find the smell source, unplug it and bring it to the O.R. a capicitor blew apart and a coil desoldered itself from the power supply board (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif) it was "protected" behind a surge protector, so i'm goign to call the surge people tomorrow....has anyone ever done this before? his 85 dollar 80GB drive is also damaged.... b |
tommy914 |
Jan 23 2006, 11:01 AM
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Life is a journey, enjoy every turn. Group: Members Posts: 1,103 Joined: 15-September 03 From: Ridgeland, MS Member No.: 1,165 Region Association: None |
Cheap power supplies are never cheap in the long run.
When I build a system I will always spend top dollar to get a quality power supply to build the system around. I get Antec and haven't had one fail yet. tomshardware.com usually has recommendations on good power supplies. Also, every computer system in my house is connected to an APC brand UPS. Not so much to keep the system on during a failure, but to supply clean power to the PC. |
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