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Limp Gawd
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Simple, you read the title... What horror stories have you had with power supplies?
Here's my only:
About a year and a half ago I bought a nice spiffy new case with a window and a 400 watt power supply INCLUDED ooo! at only $30!!! Even better... Being the n00b who didn't know jack about power supplies back then i just went 'oooo spiffy high wattage i won't need a better power supply for my system!'. Of course the power supply bundled with the case was a POWMAX, still i knew nothing about power supplies other than thinking "more watts = better, booyah!!'. So my Powmax kept chugging along fine and dandy excluding the many hiccups which I thought could be attributed to the Motherboard, having trouble setting my Barton 2500+ to the right speed and having it allow me to KEEP it there instead of 1100MHz, if not it would just shut down my comp on its own. Well I arrive at my local area LAN party for a good 24 hours of LANNIN' and whaddya know!? As soon as I power on PROBLEMS, more severe than ever... It would freeze loading windows, one time I got into the windows logon screen but with LOTS OF LAG, like playing UT2004 on a Voodoo 1, or S3 Virge And ARTIFACTS. Then at about 3 in the morning with people around me and all the people wondering what the hell the problem is thinking it's a motherboard problem as well... We power on the comp and *POP!!!!* You could hear it clearly over everything across the room... Woke some people up... Oddly we couldn't smell anything... But I ended up with a dead mobo which took more than two weeks to get replaced yet I still can't use my comp because I don't have a decent enough PSU laying around that even supplies enough power to keep it on for more than 30 seconds...
What's weird is that DEER I have laying around is the best damn power supply I've ever had. In fact it's better than the power supply that's powering this P4 system right now.
Here's my only:
About a year and a half ago I bought a nice spiffy new case with a window and a 400 watt power supply INCLUDED ooo! at only $30!!! Even better... Being the n00b who didn't know jack about power supplies back then i just went 'oooo spiffy high wattage i won't need a better power supply for my system!'. Of course the power supply bundled with the case was a POWMAX, still i knew nothing about power supplies other than thinking "more watts = better, booyah!!'. So my Powmax kept chugging along fine and dandy excluding the many hiccups which I thought could be attributed to the Motherboard, having trouble setting my Barton 2500+ to the right speed and having it allow me to KEEP it there instead of 1100MHz, if not it would just shut down my comp on its own. Well I arrive at my local area LAN party for a good 24 hours of LANNIN' and whaddya know!? As soon as I power on PROBLEMS, more severe than ever... It would freeze loading windows, one time I got into the windows logon screen but with LOTS OF LAG, like playing UT2004 on a Voodoo 1, or S3 Virge And ARTIFACTS. Then at about 3 in the morning with people around me and all the people wondering what the hell the problem is thinking it's a motherboard problem as well... We power on the comp and *POP!!!!* You could hear it clearly over everything across the room... Woke some people up... Oddly we couldn't smell anything... But I ended up with a dead mobo which took more than two weeks to get replaced yet I still can't use my comp because I don't have a decent enough PSU laying around that even supplies enough power to keep it on for more than 30 seconds...
What's weird is that DEER I have laying around is the best damn power supply I've ever had. In fact it's better than the power supply that's powering this P4 system right now.