Re: [Sheflug] Crashing software

[Robin Wood <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 17:38 +0000, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 17:23 +0000, david wrote:
> > The whole thing went belly up. As far as I can tell there was a power
> > surge which my surge protector didn't protect against. It blew out the
> > power supply, motherboard, RAM and possibly processor. I've got some
> > lovely new hardware now and no problems at all.
> 
> To be honest, that just sounds like the PSU blew up.
> 
> I've had capacitors in the PSU pop a number of times, and they seem to
> be capable of taking out motherboards etc.
> 
> I don't know if the price of the PSU is much to do with it, but
> reasonable ones seem to be very expensive. I wanted to get one of the
> new efficient quiet ones (80%+ or something), and they're virtually
> Â100 :(
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex.
> 
Maplin have a deal on at the moment, 500w for Â30. I don't know how
silent it is compared to ones built to be silent but compared to my old
one you can hardly tell it is on.

Robin



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