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Dale wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:19:36 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Folks, keep in mind why I asked this question in the first place. |
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>>> My power supply was frying and I needed a VERY fast shutdown. |
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>> I'd shutdown and stay shutdown until I could replace the PSU. PSUs are |
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>> cheap, the components a dying one can take with it are not :( |
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> Well, the P/S went out right when it was unmounting at the very end of |
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> the shutdown process. I had one file system that it had to replay a |
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> few things when I rebooted. It was a close call since the file |
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> systems that wasn't unmounted was not a critical one. |
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I can no longer contain my curiosity. How did you know it was frying? |
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Smell, smoke? Normally, when something like that fails, it will fail too |
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quickly for you to do anything about it. |
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> I did replace the P/S with a new one tho. After getting the rubber |
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> band off the fan, I did check to see if it would boot up but it just |
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> sat there. I took it back apart and one of the transistors had a |
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> burnt spot, actually, it was a diode. Since when those things burn |
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> out they are basically not repairable, I just got a new one locally. |
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> I plan to get a permanent replacement from newegg soon. The P/S I |
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> have right now is a A-Open or something. It was all they had. I did |
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> notice that the 5 volt rail is higher than the other P/S's I have had |
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> before tho. This one is at 4.97 volts where it is usually 4.91 or |
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> something. |
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Ah yes, the old dead fan problem... that's why I keep a can of |
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compressed air near my desk, and if not that, a pair of full lungs. ;-) |
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A low quality PSU shouldn't be too bad, for the time being. However, I |
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wouldn't recommend running on one for longer than necessary. I've had |
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friends who trusted case PSUs a little too much, and paid the price. |
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> You are right about burning out other components tho. I have had two |
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> P/S's to burn out in this one rig. So far, nothing else hurt. I have |
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> some good luck I guess. |
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Sounds like it. Hey, can I borrow some of that luck? You'll get it back |
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in *almost* mint condition. |
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> Dale |
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-Hal |
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> :-) :-) |
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