Comments | caramel_betty: Arse. Biscuits.

caramel_betty

Arse. Biscuits.

Jul 22, 2009 11:38

Got up this morning, main computer dead. Not a peep out of the power supply. I have an old, dead PC I don't use for anything and tested that that powered up - at least as far as fans turning on, things spinning up etc. - with its (old, small) power supply. Moved the desktop power supply into that old machine, not a peep ( Read more... )

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k425 July 22 2009, 11:33:51 UTC

Keep a fire extinguisher by the computer just in case you get an escape of magic smoke like we did!

caramel_betty July 22 2009, 12:02:58 UTC

I don't think I've ever yet had a computer die by magic smoke loss. They've all just gone to sleep forever.

samholloway July 22 2009, 12:47:00 UTC

Check your motherboard for popped capacitors before you power up again with the new PSU. Otherwise you'll probably just make things worse. It's sadly not uncommon for a dying PSU to blow the caps on the mobo.

caramel_betty July 22 2009, 14:50:32 UTC

It turns out that I bought the bulk of the computer parts back in March 2005, so I'm not too worried about it being dead. I'll probably try starting it up without the hard drives powered, though - just a live CD or something.

samholloway July 22 2009, 14:56:21 UTC

Gosh, March 2005 is positively new. My main PC at home dates back to April 2001, and has only had a slight memory and HDD upgrade since.

caramel_betty July 22 2009, 15:03:06 UTC

Historically, most of my computers have sort of evolved into the next one. Computer too slow? Okay, let's replace these parts and keep the graphics card and hard drives and monitor. I still have the old CRT monitor I first got in the summer of 1997 as a backup (although I now use a cheap-ish Xerox LCD widescreen thing ( ... )

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