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| 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 |
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Jan 23 2006, 08:30 AM
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I'm just guessing here, but if you're finding evidence of leaking or blown capacitors then it could be related to the problem affecting a large number of manufacturers - especially for motherboards. These caps were made with a bad formula which caused them to bulge or vent electrolyte out their cases soon after they were made. I had a motherboard with a few of these caps around the processor. The caps were not properly filtering the power supply voltages and it would cause intermittent lockups. Most computers today are not completely 'off' when the power switch is off. The supply is still partially on to supply standby voltages. Maybe something blew up in that section of the power supply. |
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bd1308 OT: BAM! Jan 22 2006, 08:56 PM
r_towle sounds like...hhhmmm, you know...if I had that jee... Jan 22 2006, 09:00 PM bd1308 well i sent the dad out to get a new identical dri... Jan 22 2006, 09:03 PM 914GT May not be a power surge problem. A lot of the asi... Jan 22 2006, 09:18 PM bd1308 so rich, you actually have literally transplanted ... Jan 22 2006, 09:19 PM ClayPerrine I actually transplanted the voice coils and heads ... Jan 22 2006, 10:06 PM bd1308 Jan 22 2006, 11:01 PM r_towle in the right conditions, you can get the data off ... Jan 22 2006, 11:05 PM bd1308 the local computer place (and my former employer) ... Jan 22 2006, 11:09 PM bd1308 thanks guys for helping me out.
I'll just tos... Jan 22 2006, 11:11 PM jkeyzer If it really was a surge I would expect all the ot... Jan 22 2006, 11:53 PM bd1308 antec's pretty good IMHO, but the power suppli... Jan 23 2006, 06:03 AM tommy914 Cheap power supplies are never cheap in the long r... Jan 23 2006, 11:01 AM bd1308 WD800JB is the model of the drive i need.
and WD8... Jan 23 2006, 02:46 PM SirAndy Jan 23 2006, 03:29 PM bd1308 hehe...good ol' serial connection.
i remember... Jan 23 2006, 04:21 PM
kwales Think I found out why the caps are blowing...
Art... Jan 23 2006, 08:59 PM |
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