Anyone ever blow a power supply...
 

Went outside to smoke a cigarette, came back inside to a computer that had turned itself off...went to power it back up, got a pretty bad shock from the metal power button, then a faint smell of ozone in the back.

This computer is 3 weeks old, this pisses me the fuck off. Power supply was 430W dual fan.

Shit happens i hope it's inder warrenty

I thought this was going to be a thread about new slang terms... :winkwink:

yeah in an old gateway box i had

easy as pie to replace

my lips couldnt fit around one, so no.

Once one of the fans in a server seized up. This was before the days of fan monitoring/alarms, so the first I knew of it was when it went offline. I got to the site 30 mins later, and the internal metal frame of the case was so hot that I couldn't hold it for more than a couple of seconds.

I have no idea how long the power supply cooked (after the fan seized) before it finally gave out. :winkwink:

manmy house got hit by lighting last year...thank god i moved the week before and the new owvers lost the tvs and computers :thumbsup :1orglaugh

My house got hit by lightning last year... lost a few things, but my pc was ok... had one of these

http://apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=23

I had a power supply go out and just about kill a whole computer.. It fried a $400 video card, 1 gig of ram and two hard drives.

Usually a fan goes and they overheat

I tried, but my tongue got stuck in the fan, so I never tried again

LMAO mine too, but it really helped make my tongue piercing easier! :1orglaugh

may be you spilled water on him or coffee?

That never happened to me before.

i have gone through tons of power supplys....just recently one from lightning...but usually they just die...never got shocked from one though

I've gone through quite a few.

Yup, many since 1976.

There's a distinctive (probably carcinogenic) 'aroma' one never forgets after their first PS burnout.

-Dino

I blew a power supply. Got $20 for it.

Yeah, I had one blow out on me at the Lightspeed Stuido once. I was just sitting there, minding my own business, when BAM - big noise and a puff of smoke.

Replaced the power supply and the computer was fine.

I was doing something stupid on my pc once and the whole thing shit down, tried to start it again and it wouldn,t, I thought I blew the power supply but it turned out I just tripped the switch in the power supply. Not sure where it is, my bro did it but you just flick it back and works like new. Check it out before you invest in another one, could turn out that that's all it is.

Just brought it in to get it fixed, the power supply blew and fried the motherboard too...3 weeks old...thank fucking god it was under warranty.
I think my UPS is bad, it was plugged into that, and I noticed as I unplugged it a red light on the UPS said 'faulty wiring error', maybe it sent a surge and blew it.