23 Feb
2009
23 Feb
'09
9:07 p.m.
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
js at cimmeri.com wrote:
So, you didn't have the unique pleasure of having a batch of bad
motherboards that had counterfeit caps? Poppity poppity poppity!
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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*Rob, possibly you made the 110/240 switch wrong,
but also possible is that
the PSU just wasn't ready to be turned on like that. Electrolytic
Capacitors (of which there are many in that PSU) tend towards
non-functionality the longer they sit unused. Without those caps working
right, the PSU will do pops, smokes, and other alarming things. Then good
luck fixing it.
I have to say, for all the talk of failing caps in power supplies I've only
ever seen one electrolytic cap fail *ever*, and that was last week in a
one-year-old graphics card that has hardly ever been powered off...