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26th April 2006, 12:49
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 | Power Outage causes PSU to go up in smoke The power supplies in the affected machines had largely blown capacitors and burnt PCBs. While The BoxHeads had proudly replaced all damaged components, today we have a few photos to share
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26th April 2006, 13:59
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|  ouch ... |
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26th April 2006, 15:05
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| TerAngreal had the same thing happen at a LAN, his mobo/cpu/ram/vga card all fried, only 1x Raptor survived.
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26th April 2006, 17:29
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| it's strange that such things can happens, modern PSU's have a lot of protections built-in that should cause it to power-down |
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26th April 2006, 17:41
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| Member  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: mechelen(belgium)
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 | http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...april06_69_lrg happend with me too, just overload i guess  no-name 400W psu for about 35 euro's P4 2.6 northwood with 50W pelt(just a test ^^) 2X 200gb maxtor sata hdd ati 9800 pro oc with 50Wpelt dvd-rom soundcard networkcard and some 120mm and 80mm fans. psu just blew up in smoke after some hours of intensive game of farcry
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26th April 2006, 17:44
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| lucky it didn't kill your whole system; those Pelts were the reason your PSU crashed btw
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26th April 2006, 18:34
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| It's a major flaw when the over load protection circuit does not work when needed.
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26th April 2006, 18:46
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| not everyone needs badluck yeah crap, i hope my psu from my laptop doesn't smoke 
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