[olug] Bad Power Supply - This looks bad

[Brandon Lederer]

God (or someone) invented the Macro Photo (Flower) for a reason :)


On Thursday 27 January 2005 05:07 pm, Eric Lusk wrote:
> Whoops, I had the "beer goggles" lens on! <G>
>
> --- Daniel Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
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> > <quote who="Eric Lusk">
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> > > I just pulled the PSU out of my workstation, it
> >
> > had
> >
> > > started to make a squealing noise, and I was
> >
> > planning
> >
> > > on just replacing a fan and putting it back.
> > > The affected pins are 6, 19, and 20, all which
> >
> > provide
> >
> > > +5v DC, needless to say the PSU isn't going back
> >
> > into
> >
> > > the system, and I'm keeping an eye on the on I put
> >
> > in
> >
> > > as a replacement.
> > > http://www.ericshaus.com/webpics/psu/DSCF0001.JPG
> > > http://www.ericshaus.com/webpics/psu/DSCF0002.JPG
> >
> > <HUMOR>
> > You're absolutly right.  Any power supply connector
> > that looks that
> > "fuzzy" is just bound to give problems! (If you
> > haven't looked at the
> > .JPGs above, you won't get the joke...)
> > </HUMOR>
> >
> > Ok, war-story time...
> >
> > 1: I was helping a friend upgrade his parents
> > business computers (from old
> > 286 to "new" 386-40's or 486-somethings).  Anyway,
> > we took the cover off
> > one and the BIOS chip on the motherboard was
> > completely black!  The area
> > directly over the silicon chip itself was melted and
> > warped, and the
> > sticker on the chip was burned beyond recognition.
> > The system itself ran
> > fine, but if I hadn't seen it I would have thought
> > the MB wouldn't even
> > POST...
> >
> > 2: A friends computer was acting funny after a
> > lightning storm and the
> > CD-Rom had quit working.  We opened it up and saw
> > that a *single* wire
> > down the middle of the ribbon cable going from the
> > MB to the CD-Rom was
> > completely exposed.  Since the ribbon cable on
> > either side was singed
> > severly, our only guess is that the path of least
> > resistance to whatever
> > hi his machine went through the MB, the cable, and
> > then out the CDRoms
> > grounding pin.  Very weird.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > - - - - -
> > "I do not fear computer,
> > I fear the lack of them."
> >  -- Isaac Asimov
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