Death of the Power Supply

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:22 am

Well, I've gotten a reputation with the handy man at work for being good with computers, so he brings all his personal pc problems to me. This one system in particular, has a Celeron 466 (I believe) oc'd to 581 with an Asus ME99VM board. I got this from the IT guy at work, gave it to the handy-man's brother, reinstalled windows for him, and now he gave to to the handy-man's wife, and now it doesn't work, gotta reinstall windows again. Anyway, I hook it up to see what's up, and BLAM!! Cloud of smoke out of the psu. First thing I think is, "Wow, that's cool!" Then, "Oh crap!"

Anyway, here's a nice picture of a blown capacitor in this "Real Power" 235w psu.

Anyway, would this 300w Sparkle psu be a good replacement?

They could probably get away with the 250w version, but it's only a little more with the sale.

Post by **dicecca112** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:28 am

It should be fine. Glad to see you chose a good name brand PSU

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:30 am

Yeah, after reading various horror stories over the last few years, I wouldn't buy anything unless it was a good brand first, good model second. Too bad I don't have the spare change to replace the POS psu in my current comp, I just hope it doesn't kill everything before I can replace it.

Post by **dicecca112** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:41 am

hey Christmas is coming, I'm sure there be a couple of smoking deals in Legit Trader when people upgrade

Post by **Apoptosis** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:04 pm

for $22 it looks like a great replacement... Crazy that cap popped on you... hehe

Did you see any others looking like they are going to pop?

HONkUS · Post by **HONkUS** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:33 pm

I know Sparkle is a good brand but everytime I see one of their PSU's I think of Mr Sparkle from the Simpsons....

I hope no components suffered damage.