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On Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: |
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> On 11/02/07, Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I would go with Hammann with |
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> > "Make sure, that it is overheating and not a weak/dying PSU." |
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> > Many people neglect to realise how important a decent PSU is, and how |
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> > major an effect it can have on systems. A dodgy PSU in my experience |
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> > can do everything from -CAUSING- overheating, to random shutoffs, and |
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> > MURDERING hard drives. |
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> > I had one which killed 3 Hard Drives before I realised thats what the |
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> > problem was, and the last hard drive was so cooked it didn't even spin |
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> > up. |
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> > |
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> Joy. I should certainly hope it is NOT the PSU as it is new, and replaced a |
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> dead one. |
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> ("New" as in "bought sometime in the summer") |
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6 month are enough time for a PSU to become bad. |
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Tomshardware just run a nice PSU test - the results were devastating. Only 4 |
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of the 9 PSUs survived the test. |
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