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Apr 22, 2006View in Crawl 4
i always advise people to NEVER, EVER skimp on the power supply. it's one the most overlooked components in a system, and lots of people think the cheapo PS that came with their $30 case is good enough. But when those suckers go, they tend to take several components with them. I learn that very hard lesson a couple years ago when the cheap powersupply in my spanking new system fried itself and took the motherboard, 1 Gig of RAM, by P4 2.8 Ghz CPU and my 80G harddrive with it.
FTFA: "...a friend of mine bought a new 1.3GHz Pentium 3 processor and installed it into his PC. He then plugged everything in and turned the power on. After realizing he could smell something burning, he noticed he was still holding the processor's heatsink and fan in his hand!"Honestly, was he stoned?
ive done this before...but i caught it almost imediatly (like 5 seconds)and i was like Os**tthenjust let it cool and then it worked (it wasnt incredably stable, but it worked)and i wasnt stoned....
Back in the day of 8GB maxtors. Had 4 or 5 of them around in several PCs. ALL are dead now (massive quantities of bad sectors).Also, I had a 40GB seagate die prematurely on me (bad sectors on - take a wild guess - the main idex of my home directory. Yes, everything else was fine. Except everything that mattered. Murphy's law strikes again.)
icexeApr 23, 2006
i always advise people to NEVER, EVER skimp on the power supply. it's one the most overlooked components in a system, and lots of people think the cheapo PS that came with their $30 case is good enough. But when those suckers go, they tend to take several components with them. I learn that very hard lesson a couple years ago when the cheap powersupply in my spanking new system fried itself and took the motherboard, 1 Gig of RAM, by P4 2.8 Ghz CPU and my 80G harddrive with it.
nofxjunkeeApr 23, 2006
-digg
nofxjunkeeApr 23, 2006
FTFA: "...a friend of mine bought a new 1.3GHz Pentium 3 processor and installed it into his PC. He then plugged everything in and turned the power on. After realizing he could smell something burning, he noticed he was still holding the processor's heatsink and fan in his hand!"Honestly, was he stoned?
Closed AccountApr 23, 2006
ive done this before...but i caught it almost imediatly (like 5 seconds)and i was like Os**tthenjust let it cool and then it worked (it wasnt incredably stable, but it worked)and i wasnt stoned....
marcanApr 24, 2006
Back in the day of 8GB maxtors. Had 4 or 5 of them around in several PCs. ALL are dead now (massive quantities of bad sectors).Also, I had a 40GB seagate die prematurely on me (bad sectors on - take a wild guess - the main idex of my home directory. Yes, everything else was fine. Except everything that mattered. Murphy's law strikes again.)
grayfoxApr 24, 2006
Its a problem with intels ICH5R/ICH56 southbirdge chipsets.
shadowvlicanApr 24, 2006
that's gotta suck... UPS ftw