[olug] Bad Power Supply - This looks bad

[Eric Lusk]

Whoops, I had the "beer goggles" lens on! <G>
--- Daniel Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:

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> <quote who="Eric Lusk">
> > 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
> 
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> "I do not fear computer,
> I fear the lack of them."
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