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 Posted: Sun, 12th Jul 2009 21:14 Post subject: Why do electronic devices hate me? |
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Sooo.
Newest addition to my apparently everlastion struggle with eletronic devices!
An hour ago suddenly the power went out. I was like "wft?" (once again...) and after searching around a bit I found out that my PC blew the fuse and it wouldn't start anymore.
So I took the PSU from my parents computer (which is basically my old one) and hooked it to mine and well it wouldn't start up all correctly but that could be because my graphics card needs an extra power hookup and the PSU has about 100W less than mine.
So, if I'm lucky I need a new PSU what if I'm unlucky?
I suppose everything else could be fried.
Well, gonna get myself a new PSU tomorrow and see from there.
btw. the PSU was two years old and just barely beyond the warranty
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helvete
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Location: Sweden
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Jul 2009 22:24 Post subject: |
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Breaking news:
PSU MELTDOWN! AT LEAST ONE FUSE KILLED!
Further casualties are likely. authorities are currently investigating.
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Jul 2009 22:37 Post subject: |
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| helvete wrote: | I don't get it.. did you blow a fuse in the fuse box, or the PSU? ie did the power go out on a series of outlest in your apt or was it just the computer? If it was just a fuse in the fuse box I'd recommend replacing it. 
But ok I'm guessing you did that.. but please elaborate a bit on " it wouldn't start up all correctly". |
yikes, that's what happens when I post without reading the post through again 
Let's try that again shall we?
My PC was up and running. Everything fine and dandy.
Then all of a sudden the power went out (because a fuse in my fuse box blew).
After switching stuff back on one after the other I put the cable of my PC back into the socket and BAM fuse blew again.
After that the fuse didn't blow again but my PC wouldn't start up anymore at all.
So I exchanged my PSU with the PSU from my old computer (which has 100W less and misses that nifty extra plug for PCI-E graphics cards).
And lo and behold! The PC started up again but my monitor didn't give me a picture and now I'm hoping this is because of the lack of power my PSU puts out because otherwise my graphics card could be fried.
Again, I'm just hoping that only my PSU got fried an nothing else, as in, graphics card, mainboard, cpu, RAM, HDDs.
Well, I hope this is a bit more comprehensible now 
@AwE:
If it's only the fuse and the PSU I don't mind
btw. the fuse I already did replace.
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deelix
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Location: Norway
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Jul 2009 22:50 Post subject: |
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well, my 550W PSU blew up some years ago... and a MSI mobo burned up, lol!
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Jul 2009 22:59 Post subject: |
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| deelix wrote: | | well, my 550W PSU blew up some years ago... and a MSI mobo burned up, lol! |
 I've heard the smell of a burning Cpu is quite creepy and scary
1 and 2 are still amazing. |
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| Posted: Sun, 12th Jul 2009 23:49 Post subject: |
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if ur pc starts but u get black screen its prolly related to the gpu not getting enough power like u said, i had this before
new psu will prolly fix it
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deelix
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Jul 2009 09:25 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Jul 2009 09:52 Post subject: |
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What's up with AMD hate? I got one and it works great.
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Jul 2009 12:35 Post subject: |
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still..until  Spoiler: | |
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Jul 2009 14:12 Post subject: |
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It's all good until those devices turn and try to kill you (comp says to hair drier to toss itself into bath while it's plugged in, and you are relaxing from hard day of gaming )
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Jul 2009 15:11 Post subject: |
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If your not getting any board lights or pwr at all from a psu that you know runs when plugged into the mains, you better start thinking the worse ....
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Jul 2009 16:07 Post subject: |
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New PSU installed. System seems to run fine.
Now, if I wanted to check my other hardware (ie. hdd and graphics card - maybe RAM) what application(s) could/should I use (with reliable results that is)?
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Jul 2009 22:34 Post subject: |
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prime 95/IntelBurnTest for cpu
Furmark/atitool for gpu
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Jul 2009 15:28 Post subject: |
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what brand PS were you running that blew up?
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Jul 2009 15:43 Post subject: |
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A Be Quiet! BQT-E5-500W
basically the predecessor to this one
http://www.be-quiet.net/be-quiet.net/index.php?StoryID=220&websiteLang=en
which is the one I'm using now.
Don't know, for the last 5 or 6 years I've been only using Be Quiet! PSUs in the systems I've build (which were about... 5 iirc) and this is the first one that crapped out.
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Just started burning around some condensators(sp?). First time there was just smoke tho... and I was like wtf, is this really happening? Waited 30min. Plugged it in, with an extension cord tho... so turned it on again (on the veranda this time 
