26 Jul
2009
26 Jul
'09
8:49 a.m.
On 26 Jul 2009 at 14:38, Jacob Dahl Pind wrote:
I have recently pulled my 5160 xt out of storage, but
the powersupple
seems to have given up on me, have anyone tried to repair one of those
before. If its powered up with load the fan spins up , but there is a
relay that is tricked on a small vertial installed print, turning the
whole thing off.
The case of the powersupple is big enough that I could put a new
powersuple inside it with a bit for rewiring if it turns out to not be
repairable.
I think that the first task is to figure out if it's the power supply
or the load that's causing things to trip.
The 5160 PSU must be powered up with a load, or else the undercurrent
circuit will trip. Using a hard disk (any hard disk, not just the
one that came in the 5160) is a satisfactory load (with no
motherboard connected). If the PSU stays up, look toward a fault in
the motherboard or one of the associated components (expansion cards,
floppy drives). If the PSU with a small load still trips, look to
the capacitors in the PSU--very often, these are at fault and you may
as well replace them all.
--Chuck