For some reason, I feel then need to express my "experience" on this.
I recently purchased a PC Power & Cooling Silencer MkIII 600W. At a wicked good price if I might add . Well, I was at a Lan Party recently and it was FREAKING COLD, 10°F outside. I know that I needed to let all the components get to room temp before taking it out to the car. I figured that If I did that, then everything can handled a 60°F drop and survive. Boy was I wrong. I put the computer in my car and not 10 seconds later, POP!
Aah hell. What the freak was that?! I got it home and power it on. I get the weirdest POST code I have ever heard. 1 long, 4 short, pause 1 short.
I start removing everything except ram, cpu motherboard and psu. Still getting the error code. Still did it even when no ram was present. Oh no, PLEASE DONT LET IT BE MY CPU!
BAM! Some pins were welded to the CPU. I started to think that it was ESD. So I purchased a used P67 Sabertooth and 2500k. It all powers on except my 7950 is not lighting up the screen. So, I tried a GT210. IT is able to light up the monitor in BIOS, but fails in windows. Even in Safe Mode. So, I got a friend to loan my a 560ti for testing. It will not power the screen either.
So, I am the point to where I need to take my multimeter to my PSUs 12v line and test with another PSU.
So tell me, If it turns out that the PSU did pop a cap or something, resulting in damage to my hardware, is there any chance that Ill get compensated for the damages? I really doubt it, but heres to hoping.
I'll have to post some pics when I get back home after work.
I recently purchased a PC Power & Cooling Silencer MkIII 600W. At a wicked good price if I might add . Well, I was at a Lan Party recently and it was FREAKING COLD, 10°F outside. I know that I needed to let all the components get to room temp before taking it out to the car. I figured that If I did that, then everything can handled a 60°F drop and survive. Boy was I wrong. I put the computer in my car and not 10 seconds later, POP!
Aah hell. What the freak was that?! I got it home and power it on. I get the weirdest POST code I have ever heard. 1 long, 4 short, pause 1 short.
I start removing everything except ram, cpu motherboard and psu. Still getting the error code. Still did it even when no ram was present. Oh no, PLEASE DONT LET IT BE MY CPU!
BAM! Some pins were welded to the CPU. I started to think that it was ESD. So I purchased a used P67 Sabertooth and 2500k. It all powers on except my 7950 is not lighting up the screen. So, I tried a GT210. IT is able to light up the monitor in BIOS, but fails in windows. Even in Safe Mode. So, I got a friend to loan my a 560ti for testing. It will not power the screen either.
So, I am the point to where I need to take my multimeter to my PSUs 12v line and test with another PSU.
So tell me, If it turns out that the PSU did pop a cap or something, resulting in damage to my hardware, is there any chance that Ill get compensated for the damages? I really doubt it, but heres to hoping.
I'll have to post some pics when I get back home after work.