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Topic: When was the last time you blew up your PC's power supply?
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AcidWarp
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posted 05-21-2004 08:42 PM
    
I want a UPS system so bad, I want to do all my own postage from home. Screw buying stamps.[ 05-21-2004: Message edited by: AcidWarp ] -------------------- “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.” “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” --Dr. Stephen Hawking.
Posts: 4363 | From: Waterloo, Ontario | Registered: Nov 1999 | IP: Logged
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Snag
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posted 05-21-2004 09:46 PM
this one time....at band camp...
oops, wrong story  seriously, this one time I was at a warez buddy's house in Edmonton having a beer and smoking a bowl with another warez buddy/LAN party buddy and I am high as a fucking kite, know what i'm saying. I mean, I am snapped. Anyhow, we are playing a game of Q3 when all of a sudden there is a loud bang and a crack. I damn near hit the ceiling. My buddy is like "fuck, you know what that sounded like?" and I said "No" in a George Thorogood kinda way. He says, that sounded like one of my 15000rpm platters being thrown" and I was in shock. This was his motha-fucka server he used for his 3-4 day lan parties. We had Beerapalooza coming up...this could not be happening. So we test the drives. Nothing wrong. Never did smell anything so we kinda ruled out a blown electrolytic...but be damn if one of those big bastard electrolytics didn't blow. That has been about 6 years now. Me personally, I had a PSU failing. I knew it was failing. Back then I didn't care much for my cases...or psus. They were a joint investment. PSU dies, take it apart. Test a couple components (those that I could check without a schematics and white papers). Put it together and it works. System powers off. Power it on...it goes off. Power it on it goes off. I get pissed and put my fist through it, pull my stuff out, throw the thing across the yard and then over the six foot fence into the back alley. Go to the store to buy a new one and have never had another blow...I still maintain having all those drives in that system (3cd/cdrw, floppy, 2 ide, 1 10,000rpm scsi and a tape backup) with the video (TNT2 and a Voodoo2) did not help that for 250W PSU hehe (back before people really thought of wattage ratings too lol)
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