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April 25, 2006
Furgin Power supplies
Came home last night to find that the power supply on my work computer had fugged itself to death.
Although I didnt know that at first. The smell of burned silicone made me think that my porcessor, memory, motherboard, hard drives, case and possibly even the wooden floor had been thrust through the veil and were now playing texas hold-em in some afterlife waiting room for computer parts (the wooden floor being very confused and wondering aloud why it was there, but winning every second pot so happy enough..)
I carefully (with tears in my eyes) took the cover off the computer expecting the contents to fall out as either a fine ash or a vitreous goop of plastic, copper and silicone.
Thankfully neither happened.
I spent an hour tapping and smelling all the major components to find that the smoothing capacitor on the power supply had fired itself and thankfully nothing else.
It does mean that I had to swap out the power supply from my gaming computer (someone is determined that I dont get to play Oblivion). I took the opportunity to swap the memory in too so I now have 2 Gigs on my work computer which is very fine indeed thank you (Photoshop only takes 10 minutes to produce a text field now...).
At least I now have an excuse to order stuff from Komplett!
Me want: big screen surround sound new processor
Me get: new powersupply, DVD media for backing up my work and some extra memory!
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rory
get ouwa that garden !
Posted by dottie at April 25, 2006 10:29 AM
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get ouwa that garden !
Posted by: rory at April 26, 2006 5:01 PM