Re: [Sheflug] Crashing software

[Lesley Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 :(
> 
I've been recommended Seasonic PSU's and have one fitted now.  Comes
with own fan.

Pricier than some but you pay your money and take your choice ;)

L.

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