It's been a long time since I've even messed with a computer outside work much less hardware related.
I'm swapping out my case for one of these V351's and have a gigabyte mobo on the way as well. In my experience with sff cases, they have all pretty much overheated and killed drives which...
I'm going to get an APC Line-R 1200VA Automatic Voltage Regulator unit this week just in case. I only have 3 items to plug into it so that should be sufficient.
I just read that all power supplies are on to some extent, otherwise the button to turn the pc on wouldn't work.
Thinking my powersupply was bad because it buzzed slightly when the computer was off. I bought another one this weekend. An Antec 750watt 25a (on all rails) powersupply.
I got home from a buddies house saturday afternoon and plugged it in and got my system fired up. The new one has a slight...
thanks.
It's been a while since I even bothered to do anything but use my pc much less mod it.
I just didn't remember if the p/s buzzed or not since I don't really get down on the floor often to listen to it.
I'll pull it and see about rma'n it and get a new one in the meantime.
For the longest time my powersupply, when just plugged in and not on... has a low hum/buzz coming from it.
A couple days ago I moved my mobo to another case and put everything else in the case, plugged it in and lost the HDD, dvd drive and video card (8800). I bought a new mobo thinking that...