Phsssst, bang, blue smoke and horrid smell - PSU gone!
Hi
When I turned on the PC this morning, there was a phsssst followed by a bang and before I could do anything, the blue smoke had escaped so I knew my computer power supply had just died. The smell of dead or dying equipment was awful.
It was a Thermaltake 550 model PSU rated at 430W and came with the Thermaltake Armor case that I purchased some 2 ½ years ago. I’ve now installed a new Thermaltake Toughpower 600W model and it appears that nothing was fried in the catastrophic event. Phew, a lucky escape!
When I turned on the PC this morning, there was a phsssst followed by a bang and before I could do anything, the blue smoke had escaped so I knew my computer power supply had just died. The smell of dead or dying equipment was awful.
It was a Thermaltake 550 model PSU rated at 430W and came with the Thermaltake Armor case that I purchased some 2 ½ years ago. I’ve now installed a new Thermaltake Toughpower 600W model and it appears that nothing was fried in the catastrophic event. Phew, a lucky escape!
Cheers
Dennis
you are lucky - normally they take out the drives or memory cards in the surge
Fully recharged with new smoke.... once the smoke gets out they aren't much good huh?
In my trade thats how LUCAS used to do their quality control! If it smoked up it was probably bad......
Thats why Poms have warm beer...cos they used LUCAS fridges!
Everything still operating nicely in the engine room after the hi-tech surgery! The new PSU also seems to run more quietly now - must be a whisper quiet fan compared to the previous model. Every cloud has a silver lining eh!
